In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
To inspire others Is to be immediately rich In the inner world.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.
The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.
A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.