With the sky and the sun and the moon and the stars as your witness, you are fully alive, now.

Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

Life is continuously changing, and if you’re trying to control it, you’ll never be able to fully live it.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity—simply sitting, simply breathing, and simply being.

Dedication to goodness—dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint—was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

It’s a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

There are places we all come from—deep rooty common places—that make us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again—and can go home again. Not…

I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life really is a One Way Street.

Don’t scorn your life just because it’s not dramatic, or it’s impoverished, or it looks dull, or it’s workaday. Don’t scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you’ve got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding…. / It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. / Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds.

Kindness begets gratitude, which creates connection, which raises the spirit and allows for organic joy, goodwill, and more kindness to become manifest.

I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, / And has time enough.

You ask what is the ultimate answer? / It is the song of a fisherman sailing back to shore.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I’d decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

You’ve been put here because the universe exists. There’s no use in the universe existing, if there isn’t someone there to see it. Your job is to see it. Your job is to witness; to understand; to comprehend and to celebrate! To celebrate with your lives. At the end of your life, if you come…

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not to exist.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors.

The morning glory blooms for an hour, / Yet it differs not at heart / From the giant pine which lives a thousand years

Think in the morning. / Act in the noon. / Eat in the evening. / Sleep in the night.

We should appreciate the beauty in the diversity. It would be a boring world if every flower were the same shape, color, and size.

When you look for the good, that’s what you find, and your life builds around that. When you look for the bad, your life builds around that too. Each moment, the choice is yours.