We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women

Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

There are a lot of reasons not to elect me...

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.