The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

When you experience the clarity that comes when you choose trust and love, you can see other people accurately – as the same as you.

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love.

The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.

When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love.

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.

All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.

The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.