“ Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. Matthieu Ricard
“ War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the ver… Mike Norton
“ I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equal… Jack Kerouac
“ From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear. Anonymous
“ Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life. Anonymous
“ Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself. Anonymous
“ In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. Anonymous
“ A man is born to become God, and this is the principle. A rose flower is grown in a rose plant. In the same fashion whether a man knows or not, a perpetual action is running within him, how he will be… Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
“ The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care. Suman Jyoty Bhante
“ I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. Henri Matisse
“ The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
“ As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation. Dalai Lama XIV
“ As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering… Tsultrim Allione
“ Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Gautama Buddha
“ Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum. Hongzhi Zhengjue
“ Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to part with,the heart may grow cluttered.And still the house will be emptied,and still the hear… Jane Hirshfield
