Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.