I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Simplify, simplify.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Being humble matters.

I have wasted my hours.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.