“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.”

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

What is happening within you and how you experience your life is entirely your making – your karma.

All of the results you are currently experiencing in your life are absolutely perfect for you. This includes your career, personal relationships and financial status.

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience, When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.