"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

"There is a fine balance between honouring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"Self-awareness is not an attention which gets carried away by emotions, overreacting and amplifying what is perceived. Rather, it is a neutral mode that maintains self-reflectiveness even amidst turbulent emotions."

"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest . . . a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal closeness and affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."

"What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which is always becoming but never is?"

"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

"He who is contented is rich."

"Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."