In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.