Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.