By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Love is very light, very joyful, very simple and innocent.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another

I'm addicted to you. You're my crack, and you also happen to be the only dealer.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.