Knowledge

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
The secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.
We can’t escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us in all our exciting adventures.
Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future. There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here. But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope. So, we need to make the best use of our time. I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other [continue reading...]
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Control of the life force helps the ego to switch off the electric energy from the nerve telephones, and thus prevent the invasions of restlessness-creating, attention-enslaving sensations. To control the life force in the five sense telephones is to practice concentration scientifically.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.