A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place.

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.