Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

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.

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

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.

The world's not getting any stranger.We are!

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Freud is all nonsense

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.