In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.