Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Every strict progression of an uncertain event is cease of movement in time and a birth of new space.

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.

This, too, will pass.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.