Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

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.

It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.