Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.

From virtue all happy states arise.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.

He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

If you don't have an assistant, you are one!

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

All I can do is hope.