The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.