Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

It's better to copulate than not.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.