Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Yours are the only shoes made to walk your journey.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.