On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Embrace your past. It's your greatest teacher. When you learn and apply those lessons than it no longer defines your future.

Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.