View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or b….

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself..

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything..

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up ….

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that….

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic..

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not..

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have….

Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking….

We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental o….

But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surp….

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ….

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is….

Meditation changes your character..

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are..

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side..

DUE TO OUR FEELINGS ARISING FROM CONTACT, we think and we rationalize, conceptualize, theorize, philosophize and speculate. Because of the feeling ar….

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But s….

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it..

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing th….

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through..