It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!