Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.