But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Good food is a good trend.