Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.