Decide, once and for all, that your happiness or unhappiness is primarily up to you.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you’re a vegetarian.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, Arjuna, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal.
We have a stake in one another … what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and ... if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Spirituality creates the kind of deep self-respect that does not need praise or special attention.
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.
We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
By serving others you automatically serve yourself.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
A master knows there is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You are already
enlightened, and all the words in the world will not give you what you already
have. The wise seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become
aware of what he/she already is, the true self within.
