It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

If you want to progress in your life and grow, act not to react.

If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.