Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger

Be a lamp unto yourself.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.