"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives."
"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness."
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
"When your inner dependency on form is gone..the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them -...
"What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself."
"The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is."
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."