Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever Istood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.