Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

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.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.

My name is Louie, but they call me Tony!

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.