We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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

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.

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.

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

Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above.

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Thank God, it's over.