Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.

Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.

Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day.

We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything.

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.