One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.

Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.

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If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

Be at peace with your soul and any other souls.

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?