Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.