Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.