Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.