Be interesting, be enthusiastic. . . and don't talk too much.
Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.
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.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
The bishop is a lot like me. . . just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you.
When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger. "
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.