As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

As important as it is to work very hard on your dream, it is even more important to ensure that you are working with the right plan.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

What's the ROI of your mum? You can't put a value on a relationship.

Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.