“Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.”

You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

A trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart’s response to that mystery is faith.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.