If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.

Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.