Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.

Keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.