Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

You want to not have any problems.

Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

This will never come again

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

To reach your destination, follow the directions of your heart. It knows the way.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

I'm most dangerous when bored." ~Drahomira, vampire

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

some stories don't need telling

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.