“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life.”

Don’t die with the music still in you.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you’ll attract more of the same.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny. It all begins with a thought.

No matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.