Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

There is no such thing as a weakness, only blindspots. No such thing as failure, they are just detours and scenic routes to remember your success

The fear of failure has no business in a mind that bears the willingness to learn and grow from all events of failures.

Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.