[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?

I hate anyone who beats me.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.