Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

You can align yourself with God-consciousness at any given moment by pursuing these glimpses.

Intention lays the groundwork for the effortless, spontaneous, frictionless flow of pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.

The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.