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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations."

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"It is better to be positive than negative."

"The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude."

"Aim low and you won't be disappointed."

"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."
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"When somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
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