I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.

The most important time in life is the present.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

I think I always have the same style. But if I see a trend long enough, I might catch on to it. But it has to be around for a while for me to warm up to it.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.