The Universe Smiles

Peace has no preference – it loves unconditionally the rich, the poor, the weak, and the strong.

While you have yet to awaken from your dream, its shadows, darkness, and pain are all so real. It takes but a moment to open your eyes and wash away lifetimes of deep sleep.

Until love is overflowing from the heart with the power of the Sun itself, it cannot be said that it has been known.

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

War is a symptom of the terminal diseases of ignorance, superstition, and malice.

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

If you are aware of yourself when dancing, you really aren’t dancing at all.

The mind has no origin or master and may create anything imaginable, limited only by its degree of openness.

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

Children carry what we give them into all future generations – therefore, give them only love and compassion.

Your life has enriched this world if you but just one heart saved from breaking.

If you always run away from trouble, it will be sure to follow you wherever you go.

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

Monuments dedicated to great souls cover the world, but not one of them depicts a critic.

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

You can trust deeply only those that would trust you with their life and more.

A tree’s leaves change with the seasons while its roots remain firmly planted in the ground.

There is enough misery in the world to learn from, lest you seek out your own.

If you are certain you know something well, then you are quite guaranteed to be far from understanding.

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

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

When you know with your entire being that something is not right, a billion voices against you could not change your heart.

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.

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

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

Without courage, there can be no peace.

A short life lived well is far better than a long life wasted.

Try as you might, affirming an oasis in the desert does not quench thirst unless you have become that water, through and through.

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.

Skepticism turns the fertile land of an imaginative mind into a dry desert of regret.

We cannot fail to love one another any more than the waves of the ocean might push themselves apart.

You must look up from time to time to see where the river is carrying you, lest you end up on the wrong side of a waterfall.

Grace and beauty color the Universe, yet much is filtered by pouring them through the sieve of the mind.

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

Lies may travel the planet many times over while the truth sits and watches.

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

One that is wildly alive can never be neutral, especially in matters of the heart.

While inspiration is much like a bolt of lightening, you will have to climb up the highest mountain and into the clouds for it to strike you.

There can truly be neither depth nor complexity without sweet imperfection.

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

Fear and lack of self-confidence breads the desire and demand that others walk, talk, and think alike, without exception.

If you will go deep enough into the rhythm of your work, the most precious secrets will be given to you.

Building and destroying are two sides of the same face – but that face should be benevolent and compassionate, without exception.

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.

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.

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.

Great is the gift of knowing how your words and actions affect other lives before you have come to know better.

Happiness alone has the power to grant true forgiveness.

Shining a light in the darkest hour, one may live in exile, a complete stranger in a land of barbarism.

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.