When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.
“People pull on a smile as if it were just another accessory. It might as well be a tie than a smile.”
“To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film The Matrix. It is enough to create an all-encom...”
“Why do people kill others just like them with such ferocity simply because they worship a different god? What harm were they doing? People suffer in these wars and dozens, hundreds, thousands, mill...”
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”
“If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?”
“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”
“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”
“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.”
“Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, a...”