The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

Let not thy sorrow die, though i am dead.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion