I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive

In embracing your difficulties is liberation.

May you see great visions.

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.