If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

Discipline is creating the situation.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.