Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.