Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

When they can't steal your success, they tarnish your character but at the end, they surrender to your strength.

But though hast come and all will surely change.

But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.