I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.

Nothing inhibits healing like shame.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!