“Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.”

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.