“When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.”

Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

In true love, you attain freedom.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

In true love, there is no pride.

What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.