This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

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

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.