Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.

Choosing not only the battle but also the timing is the best way to deal with what may occur.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud.

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

Pray God, keep us simple.