It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
The river swells from the little streams
Stay full of peace yourself and know that this peace will reach your loved ones and ultimately the whole world.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Just before waking up from sleep, there is a very brief state free from thought. That should be made permanent.
Calmness and tolerance act like air-conditioning in a room; they increase a persons efficiency.
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
When I speak about love and compassion, i do so not as a Buddhist, nor as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another. I hope that you at this moment will think of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.
Be aware what you wish for, for dreams and wishes come true.
