“This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.”

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.

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.

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

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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