A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

How could I miss you while you are never off of my mind.....while you are never missing from my heart

Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn't highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.