Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

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.

Don't allow your mind to create a bigger problem than your problem.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

Unslumping yourself is not easily done.

The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

Gratitude is heaven itself.