Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Careful, " he smiled, "I'm lethal.

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I'm a very serious person.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.