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.

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

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.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Take what you need, and find solace where you can.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.