“My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.”

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.

Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible.

Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.

Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.

Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.

The secret of life is… everything is out of control.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!

It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.

Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you.

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy.

To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.

There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation – a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion – that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change.