When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

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.

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

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Is uniformitarianism necessary?

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.