There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.