There’s a big difference between the head and the heart. Fear lives in the head. Love lives in the heart. The head thinks it knows it all but the heart is always right.

Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.

If there’s anyone we are sure to learn something from, it’s the one who pushes our buttons.

True love is not practical. True love doesn’t always follow the rules. When you are truly in love, you can lose your mind over it.

Those who are arrogant and controlling are determined to cling to spoken words but peaceful hearts are unafraid to go deeper beneath the surface.

Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

It was something new for her. New roads, new people, new places, new opportunities and new perspective. This is the one thing that inevitably moves a person through the grief. Growth heals grief.

Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.

Everything we do in life is creating everything that’s coming. Our thoughts and our words become things manifest in our lives. Each time my Master sent me to the right place at the right time.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.