“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

This, too, will pass.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.

The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

If not now, when?

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.