Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.