When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.