IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...

Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

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There's no smoke without fire.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.