Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.