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“Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.”

“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go”

“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

“Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

“Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.”

“The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.”

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

“When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.”

“As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.”

“Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the mechanics that allow people to have more effective, loving lives, lives of more connection, community, and communion.”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!”

“Return good for good; return evil with justice.”

“How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?”

“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”

“It is better to play than do nothing.”

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

“When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success”

“It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?”

“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.”

“If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.”

“Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?”

“At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.”

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

“When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.”

“If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.”

“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”

“Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.”

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

“The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.”

“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

“The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.”

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

“When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.”

“The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now”

“Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.”

“I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.”

“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”

“You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.”

“Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.”

“Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?”

“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

“Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.”

“Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.”