Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!