The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.