All conflict comes from attachment.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

I don't necessarily "deal" with the criticism of others. I used to, but now I'm so confident in my walk with Christ that it simply no longer impacts me. I can't allow it to. I'm on a mission!

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.