Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

If somebody praises you; change the topic!