The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

The fight of faith can only be won with the grace of God.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.