Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.
The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.