“One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.”

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or ‘nowness:’ but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.

Man’s pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.

Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that ‘Search is the Process’ and ‘Discovery the Art Form.