A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none