An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.