People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking

Which would be worse- to live as a monster, or to die as a free man?

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.