Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

Pardon's the word to all.

When children are immunized, it's really the beginning of a new day for them.