Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.

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The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.