Being smart about life leads us down a superior but narrow road of self-deception.
- Thomas Moore

Prudence is an old maid courted by incapacity.
- William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

The soul doesn't evolve or grow, it cycles and twists, repeats and reprises, echoing ancient themes common to all human beings. It is always circling home.
- Thomas Moore

Be mindful of all your daily matters, then you'll be just living with unborn Buddha-mind. Originally, no one is deluded.
- Bankei Yotaku

One important aspect of finding one's original core is the realization that the deeper one goes into the self, the more poetic one's language and ideas become.
- Thomas Moore

Whether it's connecting with the genuine heart of sadness and the messy areas of our lives, or connecting with vision and expansion and openness, what's real is all included in well-being: it's all included in joy. Joy is not about pleasure as opposed to pain or cheerfulness as opposed to sadness. Joy includes everything.
- Pema Chodron