Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored.

I'm scared as hell to fall for you." He loosened his embrace, cupped her face in his hands, and kissed her tenderly. "But I'm more terrified to let you go.

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.