To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

I wrapped the unyielding woman I loved in my arms & kissed her slowly, hoping that some part of her would sense my absolute devotion." #Ren

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

The losses are good... if you learn something.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

I just love things that serve a duel purpose.