Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.