People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Problems exist only in the human mind.

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"