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

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

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.

For women, the best way to defend is to attack, and the best way to attack is a sudden and inexplicable retreat.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

One country alone cannot defend and protect its own peace and security.