“If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.”

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.

All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.

The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?

Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.

If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.

You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.

It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.

I smiled and ran my hand through his dark curls. “So, Death, what do we do now?

My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.

I put everything in God’s hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired.