It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

When you realize who you are and why you're here, then peace will be there.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.