The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

I work out at least 5 times a week.

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.