Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

The road to Hell is paved with the best of conscious intentions.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I believe in the Motherhood of God.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.