Every woman deserves a man who respects her and every man deserves a woman who appreciates his effort.

A relationship with no arguments is a relationship with a lot of secrets.

Best relationship: Talk like best friends, play like children, argue like husband and wife, protect each other like brother and sister.

A woman should never invest in a relationship she wouldn't want for her daughter, nor allow any man to treat her in a way she would scold her son for.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of creation?

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee;

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Who would imagine that the Deity conducts his providence similar to the detestable despots of this world? Oh horrible? most horrible impeachment of Divine Goodness!

Under the cluttered days, Like a fire of leaves. But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke

Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. The flame of my life burns low

And daub their natural faces unaware.

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,

All powers, all laws, are but the fair

Meditation is an exercise in awareness.

Meditation is a willfully stimulated personal experience designed to increase our inner coherence.

Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

The best exercise is doing with pleasure all physical labour of own work along with the house chore daily.

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.

We are the Masters of each moment.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ough to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

Let the breath lead the way.

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

You are always Free.

There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.

Look within,

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.