We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
We’re all just walking each other home.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
If not now, when?