The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.