Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

I accept my body and its defects.I accept my characterand its weaknesses.I love myself as a perfect partof a perfect Whole.

INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

That's the thing about faith. It works.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.