We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

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

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

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.