The Universe Smiles

All the best that may be experienced in this life emerges from the greatest difficulties.

The mind is shaped and molded by experience, yet the Heart, the innermost core of your being, is untouched by that experience and watches as that mind is born, lives and passes away.

It is not a matter of whether or not you choose to be, but rather how completely you are.

For those that will be madly in love with life, life will surely love them back.

In order to recognize wolves in sheep’s clothing, it may be necessary to spend a great deal of time with wolves.

Tragedy and disappointment require a great commitment of energy and time, both of which would better be spent laughing, loving, and creating beauty in others lives.

It is far better to find oneself in isolation than in the crowded company of aggression and hate.

Great transformation surely comes when instead of trying to change yourself, you simply observe who you are.

When forging new territory and expanding old boundaries, a compassionate guide is indispensable.

Grace and greatness seem to flow effortlessly, but few know the trials and tribulations that have shaped that ease.

Were it not for our collective amnesia, humanity's problems could be seen clearly before they have made their mark. Somewhere, sometime – someone has dreamed of a solution for your greatest challenge.

If you have spent but a single moment calculating the wrongs committed against you, precious time has been lost on the journey to unconditional happiness.

Those that love, without restraints, will know deep sorrow, but in so loving will be healed of every darkness.

Only dreams have the power to overcome nightmares.

Uncontrolled aggression only leads to self-inflicted pain, and only when there is no pain may there be peace.

The human race is but one blood, one people. May the blazing sun of love and compassion melt the cold, frozen hearts of those that refuse to see it.

Vulnerability deepens the heart’s wound, making it possible to love without limitation.

The more love you pour into a child, the more love that child will bring into the world.

A brilliant mind with no heart is much like beautiful fruit with no taste.

You need not understand what you create as long as you feel it, deeply.

If you refuse to make heaven in this world, do not expect to find it anywhere else.

Character was never built on a foundation of envy.

Often, being right has more severe consequences than being wrong.

What we know to be true is but a bridge across an ocean of doubt on the way to the inconceivable.

If you will spend your time listening to what people are saying, you may not notice what they are doing.

To be sensitive to this life is to know terror – and from that place arises the deepest, most unconditional love.

One almost never happens upon a great discovery in full consciousness of its significance.

No misfortune in the world can overpower a soul that desires happiness for everyone, without exception.

Pure hearts will forever be trampled by political ideals unless the masses rise up and choose love and compassion as their true religion.

Meditating on others’ perceptions make them your very own. Therefore, hold fast to your heart's vision, lest you become the destiny others create for you.

A bird does not fly high into the sky by avoiding the wind.

Lying to oneself pushes ones conscience farther and farther away from truth, and as truth disappears, so does love.

Happiness does not need a reason – it is its own goal and purpose.

Love empowers all those involved with it, yet hate will only empower itself.

You are are not born who you are – you must choose to become that person.

Who and what we choose to be today forges the very people that will inhabit our future – both our triumphs and failures are magnified in time.

In the realm of the infinite, there is no time, nor is there any limit to what may be seen, heard, or felt – that is our birthplace.

Though the brain is truly nature’s first biological transceiver, we should be less enamored with what it can do and more possessed by the source of messages it receives.

If you meditate on something long enough, chaos will be orchestrated into a rich, wondrous tapestry full of meaning.

Premeditated inspiration is bound to its own agenda, as a wild dancer that watches himself in the mirror. Your creations will be colored with your weaknesses to the degree you have not surrendered yourself to that dance. Dance wildly or do not dance at all.

Every act must in some way, no matter how small, elevate humanity and lead it closer to a radiant future.

They that shine light in the darkest hour will set ablaze the hearts of all souls to the ends of the Universe.

One silent, true prayer in the heart is worth one million spoken words.

A clever mind and rich imagination are absolutely impotent without the realization of mortality and the need to care for others with the same fate.

Receiving love from another carries one through terrible moments, but not until you choose to love when it is most difficult will you truly come to know selfless compassion and strength.

Any dream, no matter how fantastic, will come true if you will only have the courage to embrace it.

If you meditate on the dead, dry leaves on the ground, you may miss the brilliant colors of the forest.

What a miraculously wonderful world this would be if each person, without exception, did what he was capable of.

Getting used to the old and familiar stomps on the budding sprouts of all that is new.

Happiness alone has the power to grant true forgiveness.