Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.

I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Mother lode of learning.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.