"One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living."

"If you want a chicken to be a duck and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer."

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

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

"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."

"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?"