Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

John turned to her, with streaks of dried blood along his face. “Thank goodness we got the easy job.

Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud!

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority