In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.