“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

In true love, you attain freedom.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

In true love, there is no pride.

What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not look away.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

Making new friends is tough. You don’t really know who to trust when you’re away from people that you love a lot.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.