The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.

All my life I wanted to be accepted.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.