Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them