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

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

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?

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

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.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.