Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

I believe having a healthy emotional will help in your ability to communicate and to connect to others. We have to learn how to express our feelings especially the negative ones.

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

We all live in a little Village.

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.