“Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.”

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion.

We human beings are social beings.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.