Purpose

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or [continue reading...]
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Be a Bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path. Your light can be the light which truly lights the world.  
Go to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say.   Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?  
The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution...it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul.   The soul is also very clear that there is no great tragedy involved in leaving the body. In many ways the tragedy is being in the body.  
You are building a body of light. You are evolving into a new race of beings.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, 'I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.'
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.