If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.

Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.