"The pleasant and the unpleasant, the agreeable and the disagreeable, are not in things themselves, but in us."

"Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in sta…"

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

"If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my boundless love. The more evil that comes from him, the more good will go from me."

"He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill — him I call a holy man."