Meditation changes your character.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.