"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."

"We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

"The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one."

"A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires."

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us."