Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.