Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

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.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

I saw it his eyes. I felt it when he touched me.