Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

I hate you, Edgar. I hate you with all my heart.

Beauty identifies by face, but justifies by only heart.

It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.

Adrenaline wants to kill you...

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.