Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best YOU that you can be.

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.