All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

The moment between before and after is called Truth.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

Whatever you think is delusion.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Make positive effort for the good.

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

If you worry about missing the boat, remember the Titanic!

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

I'm all about the crockpot.