Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

When they go low, we go high.

The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

All confessions are Odysseys.