Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

Freedom is not worth it without him.

The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.

Polishing the gold in others is easy to do and a valuable habit to develop to transform your relationship results. People will usually rise to the occasion and live up to your positive expectations.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.