The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.