Bliss is amplified and fortified by being centered during the everyday stuff.

Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration—any form non-Love takes—can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external.

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we’d opt for being lifted.

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there’s only one option.

What you think, you see. Your expectations create your reality.

Why not believe in miracles, create them, invite them for dinner, and offer them a place to stay every single day? Just because we have not doesn’t mean we cannot.

Miracles and bliss are the norm.

Finding joy in the everyday is bliss, is miraculous, and is totally rediscoverable by each of us. The main ingredient for bliss is releasing yesterdays and tomorrows, and remembering who we are now.

There’s nothing you have to be, do, or get in order to find bliss. Just slow down, listen, and remember.

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

I think it's possible to have food that's healthy, that's good for you to eat, that's also inexpensive. We don't have to have this cheap, unhealthy food being so aggressively promoted.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

History is the lies of the victors.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.