The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States!

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.