You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Life is a sacred breath.

If you don’t practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.