I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.