As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.