“Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.”

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

We cannot see what we don’t believe.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

My life is a contribution.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.

Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Don’t fear it. That pull between your heart and mind. It is trying to teach you. It is learning your language.

A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.