“The quieter you become, the more you can hear”

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know it for the first time”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and embrace them”

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all”

“Life is too important to be taken seriously”

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness”

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete”

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside, when it is inside.”

“In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”