“Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!”

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Japan should aim at is a society in which the efforts of people are rewarded.

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.