Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.