Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Knock the "t" off the "can't."

It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.