We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.