In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
