“If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.”

You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.

You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.

Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.

One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.

The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.

Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

I think I’m like a free spirit.

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.

You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.

To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.