If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to no

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.