Those who try to impress others
Spend a good deal of time
Trying to impress themselves.

Peace of mind is a paradox
For it is the mind that disrupts our inner peace.

Loneliness and anger are not strangers to each other.

Internal dialogue creates a ghost
A second person to protect the ego.

What we know
And what we do not know about each other
Is bridged by the intuitive jump.

In an ideal learning environment
The teacher often becomes the student
And the student becomes the teacher
This is called the joy of learning.

Do not bother to look at the clock
When you are in a creative mode
For creativity has its own time table,
And if you stop the clock of creativity
Your inner clock will be shattered.

Inertia is often mistaken for endurance.

Anger distorts rational thinking
And from irrational thinking
Comes fury
And from fury comes self-destruction.

In the center is emptiness
And from this emptiness
Comes creation.

The eyes can see a sunset
If you put the sunset into words
The words are not the sunset.

The deeper you see within yourself
The deeper you will see the world around you.

Often, listening to a boring person
Satisfies a need to hear the sound
Of a human voice.

Thinking about exercise expends a good deal of energy,
If we would use this energy in physical exercise
We would be much healthier.

When your friends are reduced to one,
The hermit’s life is sure to come
When the one is reduced to none.

If you wonder who you are,
Or what you are,
Let the sound of thunder
And the slash of lightening
Awaken you
To your own significance.

A toast to all that is unsaid,
For more is said in the absence of words
Than all the words
That hide more than is revealed.

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle,
Some pieces fit together
And others do not.
Too often we struggle
With the wrong pieces
Forcing them to fit.

There are those who speak about tolerance
But you can hear contempt in their heart.

In order to have world peace
We must first develop inner peace.

One ounce of love
Can defuse a hundred pounds of hate.

We fabricate fictions in our head
Quite certain they are true,
Only to watch them destroyed
In the fire of reality.

The great lessons of life
Do not come out of a book
But out of life

Learning is directly proportionate
To your ability to change.

He who concentrates on the flaws of another
Is a stranger to his own flaws.

When you speak and others do not understand you
Perhaps you do not understand
The words you speak.

What is hidden from the human eye
Is revealed by the intuitive eye.

The distinction between joy and pain
Is determined by the heart.
One brings joy,
The other pain.
If your mind has lost its way
Let your heart speak.

Lonely and alone
Are brothers to each other.

If you desire to rid your mind of negative emotions
Then build a wall of resistance
The moment it appears.

People seek to understand themselves
And spend a good deal of time
Wandering through the endless corridors of the mind.
If only they would spend a little time in the heart
The heart would reveal
What the mind has concealed.

The mind is a battleground for unfinished business.

Silence opens the universe.
And words close it.

If you put all your thoughts
End to end
Would you give a penny for them?

The heart remembers
What the mind forgets.

Emotional cripples
Keep you an emotional prisoner.

Ideologies have an inherent flaw:
Human beings.

If you pride yourself with how much you know,
Then lift the pride from your mind
And you will find how little you know.

If human beings have anything in common with each other,
It is their flaws, failures and weaknesses.

When you recognize humility in others
You become aware of its absence in yourself.

We fabricate fiction in our mind
Quite certain it is true
Only to watch it destroyed
In the fires of reality.

If your heart is heavy
Then let the smile of a child
Lighten your heart.

If you feel deprived of beauty and joy
Then watch a child at play.

A book has a beginning, a middle and an end.
You are not required to begin at the beginning,
But you may find a page, line or word at random
When meditated on, will have a greater impact on you
Then reading the entire book.

As the spirit ascends, arrogance descends.

Our credentials are written in the heart.

Distinguish between inspiration and emulation
it is far better to walk in the Garden of Eden
than to wear the clothes of another man.

We carry our torches and crosses.

Do not ask why a leaf
falls to the ground
for the question will dim
the splendor of the descent.

Vanity assumes that all things can be understood
yet the notion that some things cannot
is beyond our comprehension.

Every time we win an argument in our head
we lose our peace of mind.