A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.

Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

I loved dressing for my pregnant body. A pregnant woman's body is so beautiful. Towards the end, it does get harder, and then it became all about flats and comfortable maxi dresses.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.