Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.

When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision.

A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.