Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

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

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

We become in part what our senses take in.

An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

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.