I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
Life is available only in the present moment.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.