“Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.”

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Difficulty shows what men are.

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Only the educated are free.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

If You Pay Enough Attention, You Will See That You Are a Complete Life.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.

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

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.