There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?

Love is my religion, love is my destiny.

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

I don't like crowds or attention.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.