Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

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.

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

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.

People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.