The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

Meditation changes your character.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth, " when it is clearly "Ocean.

A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace).

False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?