Law of Pure Potentiality. / The source of all creation is pure consciousness...pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. / And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Giving. / The universe operates through dynamic exchange...giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. / And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Karma. / Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap. / And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Least Effort. / Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease and abandoned carefreeness, harmony, and love. / And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Intention and Desire / Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment ... intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. / And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Detachment / In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty ... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. / And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.  | Deepak Chopra
Law of Dharma / Everyone has a purpose in life ... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. / And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. | Deepak Chopra
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.|Chinese proverb
Accept what is weak for what strength it has; use what is dim for what light it gives. | Karagji
A clean environment makes the mind clear and fresh.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Adverse conditions are mere imputations by conceptual minds that label them 'adverse'; they do not exist inherently.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.|William Blake
A form seen in the distance becomes clearer the closer we get to it. If a mirage were water, why would it vanish when we draw near? /The farther we are from the world, the more real it appears to us; The nearer we draw to it, the less visible it becomes, and, like a mirage, becomes signless.| Nagarjuna, Precious Garland (Ratnavali)
A good traveler leaves no track. | Tao Te Ching
A human life has almost limitless potential, but we shall be able to realize this potential only if we first learn to appreciate it.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people,living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. | Albert Einstein
All of the past, present, and future are compressed into one moment -- now. | Karagji
All of those who are in a condition of unhappiness in the world are that way because of desiring their own release.  All of those who are in a condition of happiness in the world are that way from seeking the release of another.| Shantideva
All our problems and all our unhappiness are created by our uncontrolled mind and our non-virtuous actions. By engaging in the practice of Dharma we can learn to pacify and control our mind, abandon non-virtuous actions and their root cause, and thereby attain permanent peace, the true cessation of all suffering.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
All our unhappiness, depression, and mental discomfort come from self-cherishing.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
All phenomena naturally appear to our mind to be inherently existent and, without realizing that this appearance is mistaken, we instinctively assent to it and hold phenomena to exist inherently, or truly. This is the fundamental reason we are in samsara.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
All such dualistic concepts as "ignorant" and "Enlightened," "pure" and "impure," are obstructions.  It is because your minds are hindered by them that the Wheel of Dharma must be turned.|Huang Po
All suffering, all fear, and all unfulfilled wishes are the result of negative karma, and all negative karma arises from self-cherishing.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
All the delightful things of the world -- sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts -- these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed. But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.  | Sutta Nipata (from "Buddha Speaks", edited by Anne Bancroft)
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon? | Shantideva
All the information in the universe is contained in perfect completeness within every cell of your body. | Karagji
All the objects we encounter when we are awake - pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral - are like objects in a dream in that they are only appearances to mind and have no independent, or inherent existence.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
All the suffering we experience in this life, such as sickness, poverty, conflict, accidents, and harm from humans and non-humans, is the result of our own past negative karma.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
All things in worldly existence / That are colored by attachment and aversion / Are in reality devoid of any real existence. / When this is seen, everything is seen as golden. / When we meditate upon the illusion-like nature / Of all the illusion-like phenomena / We attain illusion-like enlightenment.| Dakini Niguma / instructions to Khyungpo Naljyor when asked for the essence of all her teachings (trans. Glenn Mullin)
A loving couple can make their love endure by loving other things together. | Karagji
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.|His-tang
A mind that is fast is sick. / A mind that is slow is sound. / A mind that is still is divine. | Meher Baba
And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation.|Thich Nhat Hanh
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing. | Lao-tzu
An oak tree is hidden in the acorn; a fire is hidden in the flint; an image of Divinity is hidden in you. | Karagji
A person who sincerely practises transforming adverse conditions into the path will find many good qualities in suffering, and so he or she will always remain calm and undaunted.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain.  It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world. | Buddha Shakyamuni
Asking yourself "What's worrying me?" brings insight; answering yourself brings tranquility. | Karagji
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything ... keep it. |  Mahatma Gandhi
A snowflake never falls in the wrong place. | Karagji
As soon as manure appears in your life, begin composting it for roses. | Karagji
[A] talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.  | Richard Rorty
A wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one is like one who looks up and spits at heaven; the spittle soils not the heaven but comes back and defiles his own person.| Buddha Shakyamuni
Be aware that as long as you are human, pain is unavoidable, but the distress of pain is optional. | Karagji
Because of an excessive attachment to "self," even the slightest fear causes fear.  Who would not hate that "self," who, like an enemy, is a carrier of fear; who, desiring a defense against sickness, hunger, thirst, and the like, destroys birds, fish, animals, and stands as their antagonist; who, for the sake of profit and honor would kill even his parents; who would steal even the Three Jewels, the inheritance which he has received?| Shantideva
Before enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water; after enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.|Zen saying
Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?|Shirdi Sai Baba
Behind each jewel are three thousand seating horses. | Zen saying
Be ready for joy when sadness surrounds you, be ready for sadness when joy surrounds you. | Karagji
Be ye lamps unto yourselves. | Buddha Shakyamuni
Buddha? Dharma? Zen? Tao? / If you cling to names you will be blocked from the mystery. We use a net to catch fish.  The fish are not the net.|Ku-shan
Buddha said that all phenomena are like dreams in that they are mere appearances to mind.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
"But if there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily."  This is the second comfort acquired.  | Buddha
By reciting the dedication prayers sincerely at the end of each meditation session we ensure that the merit we created by meditating is not wasted but acts as a cause for enlightenment.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
By training in meditation and living in accordance with the insights and resolutions developed during meditation, eventually we shall be able to maintain a peaceful mind continuously, throughout our life.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Chance implies an absolute absence of any principle. | Chuang Tzu
Compassion is the root of Buddha because all Buddhas arise from the mind of compassion; it is the root of Dharma because Buddhas give Dharma teachings out of compassion for others; and it is the root of Sangha because it is impossible to become Sangha without practising compassion.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experience, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions attachment, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.  | Buddha
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.|La Fontaine
Deep experience of Dharma is the result of practical training over a long period of time, both in and out of meditation, therefore we should practise steadily and gently, without being in a hurry to see results.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Directly or indirectly worldly pleasures cause us mental and physical suffering by stimulating attachment, jealousy, and frustration.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Direct your eye right inward and you'll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered.  Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography. | Thoreau (from, "Walden")
Discord and conflict are illusory because appearances ignore the inevitable harmony of everything. | Karagji
Disillusionment arises due to a discrepancy between the way a situation appears to be and the way it actually is. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
Disorder and chaos are illusory because today's appearances ignore ultimate perfections. | Karagji
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.  Seek what they sought.|Basho
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | Benjamin Franklin, American Bodhisattva
During the meditation break we should try to put our compassionate intention into practice by alleviating others' suffering whenever we can.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Empty-handed I entered the world / Barefoot I leave it. / My coming, my going / Two simple happenings / That got entangled. | Kozan Ichikyo Zen teacher, written on the morning of his death
Enlightenment must come little by little -- otherwise it would overwhelm. | Idries Shah
Equalizing self and others is the foundation of all the subsequent practices that lead to enlightenment.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Even on the day on which we actually die we shall probably be assuming that we shall not die and be making plans for the next day! | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Events may happen in random order, but in perfect harmony. | Karagji
Even when I do things for the sake of others / No sense of amazement or conceit arises. / It is just like feeding myself; / I hope for nothing in return.  | Shantideva
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery, ever desiring one sees the manifestations | Lao-tzu
Every action we perform leaves an imprint on our very subtle mind, and each imprint eventually gives rise to its own effect.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Every grain of matter, every appearance is one with Eternal and Immutable Reality!/Wherever your foot may fall, you are still within the Sanctuary of Enlightenment, though it is nothing perceptible.  I assure you that one who comprehends the truth of "nothing to be attained" is already seated in the sanctuary where he will gain his Enlightenment.| Huang Po
Every person needs a retreat, a "dynamo" of silence, where he may go for the exclusive purpose of being newly recharged by the Infinite. | Paramahansa Yogananda
Everything but the Unchangeable Universe changes continuously. | Karagji
Everything in your life is in perfect order and in accordance with the loving Universe's long-term flow toward oneness. | Karagji
Everything is interrelated and interconnected. | Karagji
Everything is interrelated, interdependent, interconnected. | Karagji
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the generosity of other beings, past or present.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the generosity of others, past or present.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Everything you will ever need is within you now. | Karagji
Every wrongdoing begins as a sense of separation from the loving Universe. | Karagji
Existence begins in every instant. | Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience the ecstasy of serving. | Karagji
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill / Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. / Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. / Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. | Lao-tzu
Finish every day and be done with it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson
First there is a mountain, /Then there is no mountain, /Then there is.|Zen Proverb
For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; / and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. / This is why there is chaos.|Chuang Tzu
For continuous joy--continuously love, continuously serve, continuously create, continuously wonder. | Karagji
For every choice, ask two questions: / What are the consequences of this choice? / Will this choice bring fulfillment and happiness to me and also to those who are affected by this choice?  | Deepak Chopra
For every choice, ask your heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort.  | Deepak Chopra
From the spiritual point of view, the only important thing is to realize Divine Life and to help others realize it by manifesting it in everyday happenings. | Meher Baba
Happiness is your nature.  It is not wrong to desire it.  What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. | Rmana Maharishi
Happiness or unhappiness isn't determined by external events but by how you interpret them. | Karagji
Hatred never ceases through hatred.  By compassion alone does it cease.|Buddha Shakyamumi
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.|Ramakrishna
Having gone for refuge, our main practice is to observe the laws of karma by abandoning non-virtue and practising virtue. This is the actual method for protecting ourself from rebirth in the lower realms, and the foundation of all other Dharma realizations.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me." | Thomas Jefferson
Hope is as hollow as fear.| Lao-tzu
How can drops of water know they are within the ocean; how can people know they are within the Divine Universe? | Karagji
"How is it possible for something that exists only in our imagination to become a reality?  It is a remarkable quality of the mind that we can first create objects with our imagination and then bring them into our everyday reality." | Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
If during our life we have worked hard to acquire possessions and have become very attached to them, we shall experience great suffering when we are separated from them at the time of death.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If one can posit emptiness, then one can posit the world of dependent origination. / If one can posit that, then one can posit the causal relationship between suffering and its origin. / Once one accepts this, then one can also conceive and accept the possibility that there could be an end to suffering. / If one can do that, then one can also accept that it is possible for individuals to realize and actualize that state. / Thus one can conceive of buddhas who have actually perfected that state of cessation. | Chandrakirti,  Prasannapada (Clear Words)
If our actions are always negative there is nothing particularly special about being human because, although we may have a human body, our behaviour is not very different from that of an animal.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If our present life could last forever we would not need to worry about the effects of our negative actions; but our life could end at any time - perhaps tomorrow, or even today.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If the roof of our house is leaking and water is dripping through the ceiling, we do not sit back and do nothing - we try to find the hole and mend it. Similarly, when we experience suffering we should consider its cause, non-virtuous actions, and apply the remedy, purification. Rather than being preoccupied with the suffering itself we should apply the solution.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance.| HH Dalai Lama XIV
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.|Buddhist Proverb
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.|Krishnamurti
If we continuously maintain a wish to help others we shall always find ways to help them, either directly or indirectly.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If we could be certain that this life will last for a long time we could afford to be carefree and unconcerned, but every day we hear of people dying unexpectedly of heart attacks or strokes, in car crashes, and so forth. Human life is very uncertain.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we did not practise Dharma while we were younger and had the opportunity, we pass our few remaining years with a growing fear of death, and a deepening sense of regret for a wasted life.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we genuinely wish to gain experience of the stages of the path we should try to meditate every day.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we have not practised Dharma and cultivated virtuous actions, at the time of death we shall experience fear and distress, as well as bodily pain.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we have strong awareness of the inevitability of death and the uncertainty of its time we shall naturally value the practice of moral discipline more than the pursuit of transitory sense pleasures, wealth, or power.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we practise cherishing others sincerely in this life we shall resolve our many problems of anger, jealousy, and so forth, and our mind will always be calm and peaceful.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If we practise Dharma purely it is not very difficult to attain realizations.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we regard all living beings as our mothers we shall find it easy to develop pure love and compassion, our everyday relationships will become pure and stable, and we shall naturally avoid negative actions such as killing or harming living beings.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we sincerely contemplate and meditate on karma we shall realize that we have already committed countless heavy negative actions. Fearing the consequences of these actions, we develop a strong wish to purify them.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we swallow the tiniest drop of poison we are terrified of the possible effect, but our fear of the effect of our past negative actions should be far greater.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If we think clearly we shall realize that all our present and future happiness depends upon our cherishing others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we train our mind to become peaceful we shall be happy all the time, even in the most adverse conditions, but if our mind is not peaceful then even in the most pleasant external conditions we shall not be happy.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
If we use our suffering to develop and strengthen our renunciation, it becomes a wise counsellor and a cause for spiritual realizations.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
If we were able to maintain a calm and peaceful mind all day long we would never experience any problems or mental suffering.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
If you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every living sentient being.  As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens and encumbrances of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness.  Only then will you become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.  | Deepak Chopra
If your mind becomes firm like a rock/ and no longer shakes in a world where everything is shaking,/ your mind will be your greatest friend and suffering will not come your way.|"Theragatha", the early Buddhist songs
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. / In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.|Shunryu Suzuki
If you show sincere affection, you will receive a response, and you will feel satisfaction.  We all need friends. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.|Zen proverb
I greet you, not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and shadows flee away. | Friar Giovanni 1603
I have just three things to teach: /  simplicity, patience, compassion. / /These three are your greatest treasures. / /  Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being./  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are./  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.|Lao-tzu
In all my deeds may I probe into my mind, / And as soon as mental and emotional afflictions arise- / As they endanger myself and others- / May I strongly confront them and avert them. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
In brief, may I offer benefit and joy / To all my mothers, both directly and indirectly, / May I quietly take upon myself / All hurts and pains of my mothers. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
In dwelling, live close to the ground. / In thinking, keep to the simple. / In conflict, be fair and generous. / In governing, don't try to control. / In work, do what you enjoy. / In family life, be completely present. / When you are content to be simply yourself, and don't compare or compete,  / Everybody will respect you. | Advice from the Tao
In samsara, aggravation and frustration are the natural state of affairs.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
In samsara, aggravation and frustration are the natural state of affairs.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, & knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. | Samuel Johnson
Intention combined with detachment leads to life-centered, present-moment awareness. And when action is performed in present-moment awareness, it is most effective.  Your Intent is for the future, but your Attention is in the present.  As long as your Attention is in the present, then your Intent for the future will manifest, because the future is created in the present.  | Deepak Chopra
Intention is the core of all conscious life. It is our intentions that create karma, our intentions that help others, our intentions that lead us away from the delusions of individuality toward the immutable verities of enlightened awareness. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.  | Master Hsing Yun, "Describing the Indescribable"
Intent is the real power behind Desire. Intent alone is very powerful, because intent is desire without attachment to outcome.  Desire alone is weak, because desire in most people is attention with attachment.  | Deepak Chopra
In tropical countries, during the hot season, many people move to cooler areas to escape the heat. Similarly, when we experience the mental and physical sufferings of samsara we should generate the wish to escape from samsara.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Invisible before birth are all beings / and after death invisible again. / They are seen between two unseens. / Why in this truth find sorrow? | The Bhagavad Gita
In walking, just walk. / In sitting, just sit. / Above all, don't wobble | Yun-men
Is it not pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice what has been learned? | Confucius
It is like archers.  If they start out competing, they'll never become marksmen.  It is only long after practice, with no thought of winning or losing, that they can hit the target. / Same with study of the Way.  If even a single thought of winning or losing appears, you will be chained by winning and losing. | Ying-An
It is mind itself / Leading mind astray. / So, take care of your mind! | Zen Poem
It is necessary to cultivate some discipline of mind, for an undisciplined mind always finds excuses to act selfishly and thoughtlessly. When the mind is undisciplined, the body is also undisciplined, and so is speech and action.|The Buddha, "Anguttara Nikaya"
It is not possible for impure, transient objects to provide the lasting joy we seek.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
It is particularly helpful to meditate on the emptiness of objects that arouse strong delusions such as attachment or anger. By analyzing correctly we shall realize that the object we desire, or the object we dislike, does not exist from its own side - its beauty or ugliness, and even its very existence, are imputed by mind. By thinking in this way we shall discover there is no basis for attachment or anger.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
It would be a great shame if we were to use our precious human life only to achieve results that even animals can achieve.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen. But I want first of all -- in fact, as an end to these other desires -- to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gifts from the Sea (1955)
Joy is not in things, it is in us. | Ben Franklin, American Bodhisattva
Judgments of others are flawed in that they ignore the inevitable perfection of who is being judged. | Karagji
Just have no mind on things and no things on the mind, and you will naturally be empty and spiritual, tranquil and sublime.|Te-shan
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom... Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.  | Swami Vivekananda
Know all things to be like this: / A mirage, a cloud castle, a dream, an apparition, without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.|  Buddha Shakyamuni
Know all things to be like this: / As the moon in a bright sky in some clear lake reflected, though to that lake the moon has never moved.| Buddha Shakyamuni
Know the mind and see its essence, and you may speak at will and go wherever your feet take you-- nothing is not the path.|Liao-an
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.|Upanishads
Learning and thinking are like being outside the door; /sitting in meditation is returning home to sit in peace|Buddha Shakyamuni
Learn the elegance of simplicity.  Less counts more. | Karagji
Learn to forgive; then learn that if you don't condemn, there is nothing to forgive. | Karagji
Learn to go with the flow of the all-wise Universe. | Karagji
Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us. | Buddha Shakyamuni
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them./ Let us not beg for the stilling of the pain but for the heart to conquer it.|Rabindranath Tagore
Life is neither meaningful nor meaningless.  Meaning and its absence are given to life by language and imagination.  We are linguistic beings who inhabit a reality in which it makes sense to make sense.  | David Bachelor
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.  Courage then to claim it;  that is all!  But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home. | Friar Giovanni 1603
Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body.  The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life, while the latter looks on in detachment.  | The Mundaka Upanishad
Living beings commit negative actions such as killing out of concern for their own welfare.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.  Without them humanity cannot survive. |HH Dalai Lama XIV
Love first, then do as you will. | Karagji
Many times in this life we have to experience the misery of parting from the people we like, or forsaking and losing the things we find pleasant and attractive, but when we die we have to part forever from all the companions and enjoyments of this life.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
May all this remain undefiled / By the stains of the eight mundane concerns; / And may I, recognizing all things as illusion, / Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
May I become at all times, both now and forever, / a protector for those without protection, / a guide for those who have lost their way, / a ship for those with oceans to cross, / a bridge for those with rivers to cross, / a sanctuary for those in danger, / a lamp for those who need light, / a place of refuge for those needing shelter, / and a servant to all those in need. | HH XIV Dalai Lama
Meditation alone is not sufficient to attain Dharma realizations, even though we may apply great effort. To create the right conditions for our meditation to succeed we need also to engage in practices for accumulating merit and purifying negativities.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
Men cannot see their reflection in running water / Only in still water. | Chuang-Tzu
Mind is the source of happiness or unhappiness. | Buddha Shakyamuni
"...most of our energy goes into upholding our importance. ... If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us.  One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."  | Don Juan, 'The Art of Dreaming' by Carlos Castenada
My mental state, I think, is quite peaceful, quite calm.  If there's some sad news, some heart-breaking news that comes, for a short moment, I am very disturbed, very sad, but then it goes.  So like an ocean, the waves come and go, come and go. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
Namo guru. / / For those who act from the heart according to Dharma / wealth is like little birds in the top of a tree. / Give generously without attachment. / / To extract the essence of the freedoms and endowments, / guard moral discipline like it's your eyeballs. / / The root of the lower realms is hatred. / Cultivate patience though it means your life. / / Your own aims and those of others aren't achieved with laziness. / Be diligent in virtuous actions. / / There's no time for confused thoughts. / Practice the meaning of single-mindedness. / / Buddha isn't found by searching. / Look at the characteristic of your own mind. / / Generally, faith is like spring mist at first. / Be brave at the vanishing point. | Godrakpa (12th cent., Tibet), from "Hermit of Go Cliffs" (translated by C. Stearns)
No conditions are permanent; / No conditions are reliable; / Nothing is self.  | Buddha
No man can purify another man. | Buddha Shakyamuni
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly.  When we know this, we become free.|Buddha Shakyamuni
Not having extinguished "self," one is not able to extinguish sorrow; just as one who has not extinguished a fire is not able to extinguish the burning.| Shantideva
Nothing causes us greater harm than this demon of self-cherishing; it is the source of all negativity and all misfortune.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Nothing is either good nor bad but what thinking makes it so.  | Anonymous
Not in the heavens above, nor in the farthest reaches of the sea, nor by transporting yourself to the remotest valleys of the mountains, will you be able to hide from the consequences of your own evil actions.  Likewise certain are the blessings growing out of your good actions.|Buddha Shakyamuni
Of all the medicines  in the world myriad and various/  there is none like the medicine of truth,/  therefore drink of it.|"Dhammapada", sayings of the Buddha
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.  It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.  The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend--or a meaningful day. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
Once you believe in the connection between motivation and its effects, you will become more alert to the effects which your own actions have upon yourself and others. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on  inside people./ He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves."   One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,superiority, and ego./ The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."  /  The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"  / The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."  | Chrokee 
Opposites complement; differences enhance; contrasts enlighten. | Karagji
Our body and mind are separate entities, and so even though the body disintegrates at death, the continuum of the mind remains unbroken.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Our preoccupation with trivial, mundane activities causes us to waste our precious human life.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without. | Buddha Shakyamuni
Peace work is not a means. Each step we make should be peace....We can realize peace right in the present moment with our look, our smile, our words and actions.... If we are determined, we can do it. We don't need the future. We can smile and relax. Everything we want is right here in the present moment. | Thich Nhat Hanh from "Peace Is Every Step"
Possessed by self, a person toils.  Possessed by love, a person serves. | Karagji
Practice the principle of good conduct, not evil conduct.  One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.| Buddha Shakyamuni
Practising moral discipline purely makes our human life meaningful. It is the only infallible method for solving our inner problems.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Reflecting on the preciousness of our human life will encourage us not to waste valuable time, but to use it to practise the stages of the path.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Rejoice always. | Karagji
Rejoicing in virtue increases our virtuous tendencies and overcomes jealousy and competitiveness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Relinquish attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and step into the field of all possibilities.  | Deepak Chopra
Relying upon the Spiritual Guide is the foundation for all spiritual attainments.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Remember that when anyone gives love to another, happiness emerges from their mind, and they then are the biggest beneficiaries.| HH Dalai Lama XIV
Samsara promises much but can never deliver real satisfaction.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but finding peace amidst the storm. | Anonymous
Since all fears and dangers of samsara, including rebirth in the lower realms, arise from our deluded minds, our real refuge is Dharma, the spiritual realizations that directly protect us from delusions.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Since beginningless time we have cherished only ourself. So strong has been our self-cherishing that we have never forgotten our own welfare for a moment, even during sleep. Again and again this attitude has caused us to create the karma to be reborn in samsara and experience relentless suffering.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Since death alone is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what should I do? | Buddhist Koan
Since it is impossible to find a beginning to our mental continuum it follows that we have taken countless rebirths in the past, and if we have had countless rebirths we must have had countless mothers. Where are all these mothers now? They are all the living beings alive today.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Sitting quietly, / doing nothing, / Spring comes, / and the grass grows by itself. | Zenrin
Someone asked, "What am I?" / Ganfan answered, "There is nothing in the whole universe that is not you." | Zen mondo
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. | Thich Nhat Hanh
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.|Buddha Shakyamuni
Take time today to be silent, to just Be.  | Deepak Chopra
Take time today to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing.  | Deepak Chopra
The best way to avoid committing negative actions is to practise consideration for others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
The best way to avoid wasting our precious life is to become acutely aware of our impermanence by meditating on death.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
The body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.|Nagarjuna
The Buddhadharma is not far off. It's as close as your mind. | Ming-k'uang (translated by Red Pine)
Reality is not somewhere outside. How can you find it, if you turn away from yourself? | Ming-k'uang (translated by Red Pine)
Whether you're deluded or awake depends upon you. Make up your mind, and you will be there.  | Ming-k'uang (translated by Red Pine)
Whether you're in the light or the dark doesn't depend upon others. Have faith and practice, and you will know the truth. | Ming-k'uang (translated by Red Pine)
If you don't take the medicine of the Great Physician, when will you see the light of the sun? | Ming-k'uang (translated by Red Pine)
The deepest happiness you can have comes from that capacity to help relieve the suffering of others. | Thich Nhat Hanh
The Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle, /Is rarely encountered, even in hundreds of thousands of millions of kalpas./Now we can see it, listen to it, accept and hold it--/May we completely realize the Buddha's true meaning.|Wu Tse-t'ien
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. | Mahatma Gandhi
The duration of our future lives is far greater than the duration of this present life, and so our future lives are far more important than this life.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.|Samuel Johnson
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.| Yasutani Roshi
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. | Benjamin Disraeli
The great Way has no impediments; it does not pick and choose.  When you abandon attachment and aversion you see it plainly.  Make a thousandth of an inch distinction, heaven and earth swing apart./If you want it to appear before your eyes, cherish neither for nor against.| Seng Ts'an
The happiness experienced by samsaric beings is simply worldly pleasure, which in reality is the suffering of change. In samsara all pleasures are short-lived and eventually change into pain.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
The mind does not exist from its own side.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
The more difficult our circumstances, the more encouraged we should feel to practise purification.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
The most fleeting thought is timeless,/A single hair's enough to stir the sea.| Shutaku
The only significant difference between the process of sleep, dreaming, and awakening and the process of death, intermediate state, and rebirth is that after the clear light of sleep has ceased the relationship between our mind and our present body remains intact, whereas after the clear light of death this relationship is broken.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
The paramitas (transcendental virtues) are very concrete means for us to cross over the sea of suffering to the shore of freedom from craving, anger, envy, despair, and delusion. Through cultivating and perfecting these ways of being, we can reach the other shore very quickly -- it may take only a few seconds for us to cross over the river of suffering and arrive on the shore of well-being. We may have thought that it would take many years of practice in order to get free of the afflictions but if we know how to cultivate and manifest the qualities we can cross over here and now. | Thich Nhat Hanh, "Opening the Heart of the Cosmos"
The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift.  | Anonymous
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words? He is the one I would like to talk to. | Chang Tzu
The quality of life depends not upon external development or material progress, but upon the inner development of peace and happiness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
The quality of your life is determined by attitude and interpretation, not by events or resources. | Karagji
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. | Baba Ram Das
There are no failures, just circumstances and our reactions to them. |Benjamin Franklin, American Bodhisattva
There are two important things to emphasize when we meditate: our motivation at the beginning and our dedication at the end.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
There is little point in confessing our negative actions if we have no intention to refrain from committing them again in the future.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.|Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no need to run outside.  Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it the less you learn.|Lao-tzu
There is no reality except the one contained within us.  That is why so many people live such an unreal life.  They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. | Hermann Hesse
There is nothing I can give you which you have not.  But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take.  No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.  Take heaven!  No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.  Take peace!  The gloom of the world is but a shadow.  Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.  There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see.  And to see, we have only to look.  I beseech you to look! | Friar Giovanni 1603
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.  Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.  it is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. | Buddha Shakyamuni
The sage does not accumulate for himself.  The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own. | Lao-tzu
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. | Lin Yutang
The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.|Confucius
The thoughtful exert themselves; they do not relish attachment. Like swans leaving a lake, they abandon one attachment after another.| Buddha Shakyamuni, from the Dhammapada
The very manifestation of suffering should remind us of its cause, our own negative actions.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
The way of the Buddha is to know yourself; / To know yourself is to forget yourself; / To forget yourself is to be awakened by all things. | Genjo Koan
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. | Dogen
The wise man looks for what is within, the fool for what is without.| Confucius
This dependent relationship between actions and their effects, virtuous actions causing happiness and non-virtuous actions causing suffering, is taught by the Buddhas based on their perfect knowledge. We must believe it because conviction in the laws of karma is the root of future happiness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.  When you struggle against this moment you struggle against the entire universe.  | Deepak Chopra
Those in a hurry do not arrive. | Zen saying
Those who have no accumulation, who eat with perfect knowledge, whose sphere is emptiness, signlessness, and liberation, are hard to track, like birds in the sky.| Buddha Shakyamuni, from the Dhammapada
Those whose compulsions are gone, who are not attached to food, whose sphere is emptiness, signlessness, and liberation, are hard to track, like birds in the sky.| Buddha Shakyamuni, from the Dhammapada
Though countless stars illumine the night/And the moon brightly ornaments the earth,/Only the sun provides light for the day/And gives meaning to the terms "east" and "west."/The man who accomplishes completely/One single act/Excels all sentient beings./The moon when full illumines the earth ­/The multitude of stars have not this power.|Nagarjuna 
Three components of the Law of Least Effort: / / 1. Acceptance -- Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. This and every moment is as it should be. / 2. Accept Responsibility -- not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Respond creatively to any situation as it is in the now. / 3. Maintain a state of defenselessness -- relinquish the need to convince or persuade others of your point of view. | Deepak Chopra
Throughout all our activities we should maintain the recognition that all beings are very kind to us. This special way of viewing living beings will prevent us from becoming involved in arguments or from criticizing others. We shall easily attain the realizations of love, compassion, and bodhichitta.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Time and space are one; energy and matter are one; being and action are one; you and the loving Universe are one. | Karagji
Time is not a line, but a series of now points.|Taisen Deshimaru
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. | Confucius
To change another person, change yourself first. | Karagji
Today accept people, situations, circumstances and events as they occur.  Know that each moment is as it should be because the whole universe is as it should be.  | Deepak Chopra
Today, commit to detachment.  Allow yourself and those around you the freedom to be as they are. Don't force solutions on problems, but participate in everything with detached involvement.  | Deepak Chopra
Today, continuously ask yourself: How can I serve?  How can I help?  | Deepak Chopra
Today factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of your experience.  In your willingness to accept uncertainty, allow solutions to spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos.  | Deepak Chopra
Today focus awareness on Defenselessness.  Relinquish the need to defend your point of view. Remain open to all points of view and be not rigidly attached to any one of them.  | Deepak Chopra
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. | Deepak Chopra
Today I will silently wish for each person I meet: happiness, joy, and laughter.  | Deepak Chopra
Today, judge nothing that occurs, and throughout the day remind yourself not to judge.  | Deepak Chopra
Today lovingly nurture the Buddha Nature within you.  Pay attention to the spirit that animates both body and mind.  Awaken to the deep stillness within your heart.  | Deepak Chopra
Today take responsibility for your situation and for all those events you see as problems.  In every problem hides opportunity.  Take responsibility to transform this moment into a greater benefit.  | Deepak Chopra
Today wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift--it may be a complement, a flower, or a prayer.  | Deepak Chopra
Today, witness the choices made in each moment.  Know that the best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.  | Deepak Chopra
To encourage creativity and foster peace, make room for idiosyncrasies. | Karagji
To find the Divine, lose yourself. | Karagji
To find the source of any discord in your life, look in your mirror. | Karagji
To improve relations with your spouse, try not to improve your spouse. | Karagji
To increase knowledge, add something every day. / To increase wisdom, remove something every day. | Karagji
To increase your wealth, decrease your desires. | Karagji
To measure how much spiritual progress you've made today, count how many times you've been irritated today. | Karagji
To release our mind from self-grasping, the root of all delusions, we need a direct realization of emptiness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
To see what is not only requires a great deal of capacity and awareness of action, but it also means turning your back on everything that you have built up, your bank account, your name, and everything that we call civilization. | Krishmamurti
To the actions you are entitled, but not to the fruits thereof. | Bhagavad Gita
Try not to turn away from those whose appearance is disturbing, or from the ragged or unwell. / Try never to think of them as inferior to yourself. Try not to even think of yourself as better than the humblest beggar-- / for you will both look the same in your graves. | HH XIV Dalai Lama
Unborn emptiness has let go of the extremes of being and non-being.  Thus it is both the center itself and the central path.  Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.  | Je Tsongkhapa
Understand that outer appearances are unreal /   because they are mistaken. /Understand that inner mind is empty /   because it is devoid of self-identity./Understand that thoughts are momentary /   because they occur due to conditions./Understand that both your physical body and your voice are impermanent/   because they are conditioned./Understand that the consequences of your actions are inevitable/   because all pleasure and pain of sentient beings results from karma./Understand that pain is your spiritual friend/   because it is the cause of renunciation./Understand that pleasure and happiness is the demon of attachment/   because it is the root of samsara./Understand that many engagements are obstacles for merit/   because they hinder spiritual practice./Understand that enemies and obstructors are your teachers/   because obstacles are inspiration for spiritual practice./Understand that everything is of equal nature,/   because all phenomena are ultimately devoid of self-nature./These were the ten things to understand.|Gampopa, from "The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path"  (trans. by Erik Pema Kunsang)
Unhappiness lingers when you fail to communicate your feelings to yourself or a friend. | Karagji
Unify your attention. / Do not listen with your ears but with your mind; do not listen with your mind but with your essence. / The ears can't do more than to listen, the mind cannot do more than to recognize. / As for the essence, it is a void completely unengaged. The Way gathers only in the void. | Confucius
Usually when we are very attached to someone we feel jealous if they leave us on our own and spend time with someone else, but when we die we shall have to leave our friends with others forever.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Waiting is not mere empty hoping.  It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.| I Ching
"We" and "us" are reality; "I" and "me" are not. | Karagji
We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thought.  With our thoughts, we make our world. | Buddha Shakyamuni
We brought nothing with us from our former lives, yet as soon as we were born we were given a home, food clothes, and everything we needed; all provided by the kindness of others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
We cannot assume that our future lives are a long way off; we could find ourself thrown into our next life today.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
We cannot perceive our own faults, / And continually examine the faults of others instead. / How can we all be harmonious with one another? | Milarepa
We do not know what non-virtuous actions we have committed in the past and so we do not know what suffering lies ahead of us if we fail to practise purification.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.  | Marcel Proust
We need: / the steed of love and compassion; / body realized as the temple of the deity; / mind stabilized in the unchanging ground of reality; / devotion warm and bright as the sun; / and unshakeable aspiration for universal deliverance. / These are the five branches of Mahamudra. | Padmo Drupa
We need to exchange self with others because self-cherishing is the root of all our problems, whereas the mind that cherishes others is the source of all goodness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
We seek perfection - the perfect society, the perfect home, the perfect partner - but perfection cannot be found in samsara.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.|Tao Te Ching
We should feel affectionate love for all living beings and always value their happiness and freedom. If we train in this way many of the problems we experience in our daily life will disappear, because most of our problems arise from regarding ourself as more important than others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
We should keep a watch over our mind at all times by applying mindfulness, alertness, and conscientiousness; and we should try to abandon whatever bad habits we may have.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
We should not allow a gulf to develop between our meditation and our daily life, because the success of our meditation depends upon the purity of our conduct outside the meditation session.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
We should patiently accept whatever misfortune befalls us and use it as an example to help us develop sympathy for others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
We should try to maintain bodhichitta day and night. In particular we should try to ensure that whatever actions we undertake are motivated by bodhichitta.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
We work to become, not to acquire.|Elbert Hubbard
"What the teacher really offers the student is literally living proof that all this talk and the seemingly impossible goals can be realized in this lifetime. The deeper you go into practice, the deeper you find your teacher's mind is, until you finally realize that your mind and his mind are Buddha's mind." | "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Suzuki Roshi
When all discrimination is abandoned, when contact with things is broken, the mind is brighter than sun and moon together, cleaner than frost and snow.  | Zen prayer
When crows find a dying snake, they behave as if they were eagles.  When I see myself as a victim, I am hurt by trifling failures.  | Shantideva
Whenever I interact with someone, / May I view myself as the lowest amongst all, / And, from the very depths of my heart, / Respectfully hold others as superior. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
Whenever we can we should try to be of service to others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Whenever we experience difficulties or suffering we should not blame other people or the external situation - rather we should remember that ultimately all our problems arise from self-cherishing.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Whenever we see or hear of others' suffering we should try to strengthen our compassion.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Whenever we see someone in pain or experiencing difficulties we should try to respond by helping them. If we cannot help in a practical way we should at least try to help with our thoughts and prayers.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
When I see beings of unpleasant character / Oppressed by strong negativity and suffering, / May I hold them dear-for they are rare to find- / As if I have discovered a jewel treasure! | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it.| Ashvaghosha
When others, out of jealousy / Treat me wrongly with abuse, slander, and scorn, / May I take upon myself the defeat / And offer to others the victory. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
When our hearts are filled with pure love we cannot be disturbed by anger or jealousy.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
When someone whom I have helped, / Or in whom I have placed great hopes, / Mistreats me in extremely hurtful ways, / May I regard him still as my precious teacher. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons/HarperCollins, 2000)
When the mind is not aroused, this is discipline. / When the mind is unmoved, this is concentration. / When the mind is not obscured, this is insight.|Hseuh-yen
When we are approaching death we should not worry about leaving our possessions behind, but should be like people who happily go on holiday without worrying about the things they leave at home.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
When we are familiar with exchanging self with others we shall become like the great Tibetan Bodhisattva, Geshe Langri Tangpa, who was able to accept happily any pain or difficulty such as illness, loss, or criticism, and to offer all his success and good conditions to others.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity -- not occasionally, but all the time--then we will know the true meaning of success.  | Deepak Chopra
When we die, if the karma that ripens is negative we shall take rebirth in one of the lower realms.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook
These attainments depend upon the practice of Dharma, but because we are so attached to worldly activities we do not have a strong wish to practise Dharma. This is our main obstacle. To overcome this obstacle we need to meditate on death.|The Meditation Handbook 
When we die our mind leaves our body and goes to the next life, just like a guest leaving a guest house and going somewhere else.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
When we hear or read about the horrible diseases experienced by others we must remember that the same could happen to us. While we remain in samsara we a never safe from the threat of sickness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
When we meet with difficult circumstances or see others experiencing difficulties, we should use these to remind ourself of the disadvantages of samsara.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. |  Shunryu Suzuki
When you drink water, remember the mountain spring. | Chinese proverb
When you have the exquisite combination of acceptance, responsibility, and defenselessness, you will experience life flowing with effortless ease. This is the Law of Least Effort. | Deepak Chopra
When you meditate, invite yourself to feel the self-esteem, the dignity, and strong humility of the Buddha that you are.|Sogyal Rinpoche
When you no longer think of good or evil, what is your original face?|Hui Neng
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. / And what is it to work with love?  It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.  | Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
Whereas each one of us is just one single person, other people are countless in number; therefore the happiness of others is much more important than our own happiness.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, The Meditation Handbook 
Whether an action is good, bad, or neutral depends principally upon the intention that motivates it.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Whoever wishes to quickly rescue himself and another should practice the supreme mystery: the exchanging of himself and the other.| Shantideva
Who is wise? / He that learns from everyone. / Who is powerful? / He that governs his passions. / Who is rich? / He that is content. / Who is that? / Nobody.| Benjamin Franklin, American Bodhisattva
Why aren't you happy?  It's because 99 percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself. | We Wei Wu
With a contented mind we shall be happy even without wealth; but if we have a discontented mind we shall be unhappy no matter how rich we may become.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Universal Compassion 
With a determination to achieve the highest aim / For the benefit of all sentient beings / Which surpasses even the wish-fulfilling gem, / May I hold them dear at all times. | Langri Thangpa, 11th c., trans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama Geshe Thupten Jinpa in Transforming the Mind (Thorsons HarperCollins, 2000)
With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude. | HH Dalai Lama XIV
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.| Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism 
Without meditation, where is peace?/Without peace, where is happiness?|Bhagavad Gita
Work slowly and stop only to rest.  For rest is part of the rhythm of work, and work is part of the rhythm of life. | Karagji
You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. | Karagji
You and all other creatures change continuously.  Change is a constant among creatures. | Karagji
You and the Universe are identical; / not one, not two. | Karagji
You are always evolving toward your perfection. | Karagji
You are irrevocably evolving toward your completeness, wholeness, oneness with a loving, Divine Universe. | Karagji
You are what your deep, driving desire is. / As your desire is, so is your will. / As your will is, so is your deed. / as your deed is, so is your destiny.  | Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 
You can choose to make suffering, which is always temporary, either enriching or distressing. | Karagji
You're braver than you believe, / and stronger than you seem, / and smarter than you think. |Christopher Robin
Your perfection and harmony with the Universe is both completing and completed in the eternal now. | Karagji
Your soul and the particles of your body existed and will continue to exist for all time. | Karagji
Your soul, now temporarily housed in a human body, lives forever. | Karagji
Your true nature is not lost in moments of delusion, / nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment./ It was never born and can never die./It shines through the whole universe, /filling emptiness, one with emptiness.|Zen Master Huang Po
Your worst enemy is your best friend. | Karagji
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.|Buddha Shakyamuni
Zen is the madman yelling "If you wanta tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars!" | Jack Kerouac
Personal power decides who can or cannot profit by a revelation;  very few would be willing to listen; and of those few who listen even fewer would be willing to act on what they have listened to; and of those who are willing to act even fewer have enough personal power to profit by their acts.|don Juan, Tales of Power
Faith dispels doubt and hesitation; it liberates you from suffering, and delivers you to the city of peace and happiness.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Lamp of the Jewel Sutra
It is faith that removes the mental turbidity and makes your mind clear.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Lamp of the Jewel Sutra
Faith reduces your pride and is the root of veneration.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Lamp of the Jewel Sutra
[Faith] is the supreme lake because you can easily traverse from one stage of the spiritual path to another.|HH Dalai Lama XIV
Faith is the supreme wealth, treasure, and legs; /And is like hands with which to gather virtues.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Lamp of the Jewel Sutra
Faith precedes all virtuous activities, like a mother./It protects and increases all beneficial qualities.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Lamp of the Jewel Sutra
Just as all places are pervaded by space, so all virtuous states of mind are pervaded by faith. |Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Joyful Path of Good Fortune
Faith is a naturally virtuous mind that functions mainly to oppose the perception of faults in its observed object.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Joyful Path of Good Fortune
Since faith does not arise spontaneously in our mind, we need to cultivate it by meditating on the good qualities of the Three Jewels.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Joyful Path of Good Fortune
Those who have mastered the three virtuous roots are able to transform all experience into the path to enlightenment.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Understanding the Mind
Our ability to enter the spiritual path depends upon our having the faith that believes that spiritual realizations directly protect us from suffering and fear.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Since faith is the root of all attainments it should be our main practice.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Faith is more than just belief...for faith views it's object as pure and holy.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Faith is like pure eyes that allow us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Without faith our mind is like a burnt seed, for just as a burnt seed cannot germinate, so knowledge without faith can never produce spiritual realizations.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Faith in spiritual teachings induces a strong intention to practice them, and this in turn induces effort. With effort we can accomplish anything.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
If a practitioner has strong faith, then even if they make some mistake they will still receive benefit.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Time passes unhindered.  When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again.  All we can do is use the present well.|HH Lalai Lama XIV
When we tug on a single thing in nature we find it attached to everything else.|John Muir
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. |Venerable Matthieu Ricard
In this moment there is nothing which comes to be. In this moment there is nothing which ceases to be. Thus there is no birth-and-death to be brought to an end. Therefore the absolute tranquility of nirvana is this present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight. |Hui Neng, The Sixth Zen Patriarch
There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to meditate on emptiness.It is the medicine that cures all mental and physical diseases, and the nectar that bestows the everlasting happiness of enlightenment.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
Since it is self-grasping that keeps us bound to samsara and is the source of all our suffering, meditation on emptiness is the universal solution to all problems.  It is the medicine that cures all mental and physical diseases, and the nectar that bestows the everlasting happiness of enlightenment.|Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life
When the ego's frantic struggle is relaxed, the basic energy of the individual can shine through as wisdom. |Tsultrim Allione
Contemplative prayer hastens the process of evolution by enabling us to hear the word of God without wax in our ears – that is, to be empty of attachment to our own ideas, programs and plans. | Father Thomas Keating
If you're going through hell, keep on going.| Walt Disney
We are the life force power of the universe. ... We have the power to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be in the world.| Jill Bolte Taylor
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems. |HH Lalai Lama XIV
Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for the sun to shine in a north-facing cave. |Tibetan Saying
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.|Carlos Castenada
Life is the gift of nature, /But beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. |Ancient Greek Adage
Many thoughts will crowd into your mind. Let them come and go, without getting involved in them or trying to suppress them.|Dogen
You will never find a perfect person, but if you look with love in your eyes then you will find something perfect in everyone you meet. |Ed & Deb Shapiro
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.|His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, from his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 1989
Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to “the news that is always arriving out of silence.” |Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Don't just wish for peace. Work for it.|His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV
All that we are arises with our thoughts./With our thoughts we make the world./Speak or act with an impure mind/And trouble will follow you/As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart./Speak or act with a pure mind/And happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.|Buddha Shakyamuni, Dammapada
Although my enemies of hatred, attachment and so forth have neither weapons, legs nor arms, /still they harm and torture me and treat me like a slave.|Shantideva
If there is light in the soul/There will be beauty in the person./If there is beauty in the person/There will be harmony in the house./If there is harmony in the house/There will be order in the nation./If there is order in the nation/There will be peace in the world.|Chinese Proverb
If you cannot find the truth right where you are,/where do you expect to find it?|Dogen
Trying to change the world without changing our mind is like trying to clean the dirty face we see in the mirror by scrubbing the glass.|Lama Shenpen Drolma, from Change of Heart: The Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku (Padma)
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.|Zen Saying 
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. | Steve Jobs
God, whose love and joy/are present everywhere,/can't come to visit you/unless you aren't there.|Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677)
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go what is in between, transcending the things of time. /With your mind free in every direction, you will not return to birth and aging.|Shakyamuni
We don't have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.| Joseph Goldstein, from Empty Phenomena Rolling On in Tricycle Winter 1993

