Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.