Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

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

We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.