To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

All my life has been about proving myself.

Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from one Father, and is with and has gone to one.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.