Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.

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

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.