Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.

Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

The real youis much too big to be your own.

People fear what they don't understand. They always have.

Dream big, because dreams do happen.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.