Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Wise man and river; they both create new paths!