You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).