“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

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.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

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

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.