Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

If you want to attain peace, live peacefully

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."]

Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.

There's something inherently comical about the fact that most people want to change other people's lives, while they themselves remain stoic as they loiter in their own shortcomings.

At the blind date, deafen your earsto hear the wordsspoken with her eyes.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.