Suffering = Pain x Resistance

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

I could never be so lucky again

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.