"It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because...
"The finest and the most beautiful things in life can be lived, can be known, but they are difficult to define, difficult to describe."
"Everything natural - every flower, tree, and animal - has important lessons to teach us if we only STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN."
"Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! Go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty."
"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
"The truth is not always beautiful, or beautiful words the truth."
"Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn."
"The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering...
"The Friend has come! My sun and Moon, my sight and hearing that Beauty suddenly appeared by my side. The one who was always in my thoughts for whom I've searched so long has come to me with open arms laying flowers on my path. My deepest wish has been granted. What...
"This small life that you have got can be turned into a paradise. This very earth is the lotus paradise."