Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance

Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.