I am in my own head most of the time.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Peace begins with a smile.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.