Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

I love you, Avery. Always. You completed my life. You made me whole, gave me hope, made me a better man. For me, you were everything right in my life." - Kane Dalton

Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk.

I never liked you, and I always will.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.