There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

I kiss the soil as if it is the last time I will recognize the beauty she has given the trees.

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.