Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you.

A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life

A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.