If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.