After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

This is it.

Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment, understanding that in patience lies wisdom, knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.

Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.