No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It is a power in its own right. The artist starts with a blank canvas - silence. The composer places it between and behind the notes. The very ground of your being, out of which comes all your thoughts, is silence. The way to silence is through meditation. When you arrive in your own silence you will know true freedom and real power. Stop, take a minute, and listen to the silence within you today. Then be aware of what disturbs your inner silence. It could be negative thoughts, memories, sensations. And when you are aware, you will know what is draining your creative power, and you will know what needs to change...on the inside!.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
We tend to see things not as they are but as we are. Becoming quiet and simple inside is a first step to seeing things truly.
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
If you’re having trouble with meditation, that means you’re not really doing it. The powerful thing about meditation is its radical simplicity—be still, be at ease, pay attention. That’s the beauty of it—meditation means doing absolutely nothing. And there are only two positions in relationship to that: you either do it or you don’t. But often human beings find this simplicity unbearable. It confronts us with ourselves at the deepest level, and most of us just can’t bear that degree of transparency. But that’s why it’s important to learn how to meditate. It is only in the exquisite simplicity of doing absolutely nothing that you begin to be able to see yourself in ways you ordinarily would never be able to do. If you really engage with this unbearable simplicity, it’s impossible to hide from yourself.
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
It's good to have an opinion isn't it? If you don't have an opinion about important issues you are seen as weak - right? This is how people justify holding an opinion about anything and everything. But wait a second - in the moment of expressing your opinion, if it is the defence of a position, or it's designed to be against another opinion, it is nothing more than an attachment. And this means fear is present. It means insecurity. This may explain why those who have the same opinions form pressure groups and factions, and why there is usually a great deal of emotion and conflict present. It may explain why there is much wailing and weeping, loud words and the crossing of swords whenever, opposing opinions meet. Much better to have a point of view, and to be extremely interested in others points of view. This says, "I am flexible", it says, "I have the humility to learn", and it says, "I seek to meet you on the ground we share, as opposed to fight you from a proclaimed territory."
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
