Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving a trace.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.