Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!