When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

Caring for others is the basis of worldly success.

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.