Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience..

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day….

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you reall….

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a ….

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the ma….

It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow….

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatre….

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, bet….

In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely….

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words tru….

There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is in t….

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present..

It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm….

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we….

The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of ou….

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility..

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being..

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely..

When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us where….

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow..

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires..