Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.