Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!