Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

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.

She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be worth it...however, alive, kicking and raring to go would be preferable

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.