Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?

Heal the boy and the man will appear.

I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are

The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.