Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.