Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.