I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?