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

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.

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.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

I think everyone always has time to suffer.

If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.