I find that being with other people dissipates my energy.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

I want to ripoff your logic and make passionate sense to you.

in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

If I told you Jesus Christ was black you're going to be afraid of me because I'm telling you the truth. That's where I always come from.