You are not an observer, you are a participant.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.

Growth is a part of change.

Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.