But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

If you're laughing, you're healing.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

We are all one body, we are all one.

It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.