Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!

Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

Power is intoxicating.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.