Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You change your life by changing your heart.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

The longer I have played, the perception of myself has changed. I conduct myself to other players a bit better.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .