To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Only this actual moment is life.

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness. Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because deathis a part of life.

[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.