“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.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.

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.