Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
The 'truth' is only a way of speaking; there is not something labeled 'Truth,' that one day you will find and open the box and see the contents and say, 'Great! I have found the truth.' There is no such box. Your existence is the truth, and when you are silent you are in truth. And if the silence is absolute then you are the ultimate truth. But don't think of the truth as an object –it is not an object. It is not there, it is here.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
The lotus is a symbol of purity. Its roots are in the mud, but the flower remains above dirty water. Live a lotus life. Be in the world, but unaffected by impurities.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
On action alone be thy interest... Never on its fruits... Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction...
Smiling is infectious. Please pass this on.
Great souls take advantage of every moment and every opportunity to give happiness to others through kindness in their thoughts; such souls are willing to overlook weaknesses and mistakes and have the desire to help everyone reach their potential..
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
