Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.