Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?