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

Fear is finding fault with the future.

How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. .

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.

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.

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.

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!

So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.

Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.