What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.