When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Guys need to know when to take charge.

Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.