Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

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.

What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

After all, the world is still great.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.