you can live a whole life time never being awake.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.

Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.