In this world the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -- there are no distinctions.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
When I become excessively critical towards others, it means I am going in the wrong direction. We are usually very good at spotting mistakes, but we should develop the quality of also spotting goodness. If I can see what is good in others or in situations and go beyond the curtain of negativity, I feel good about myself. If I constantly think "he is wrong", I instead create a barrier which blocks me from reaching my own goodness. A very ancient law says: "just as I treat others, I shall be treated by others."
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Do everything you ask of those you command.
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of
bravery
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
I hear, I forget
I see, I remember
I do, I understand.
