Forgiveness is a feeling.
Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn’t mean they have a right to stay.
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the “right one” can be found by totting up a potential mate’s pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.
A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.
For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid – a rock, a tree, your body – is actually 99.999% empty space.
When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.
The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.
A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.
No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.
I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.
Terrorism isn’t insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don’t try to steer the river.
We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.
You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.
From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.