The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.