Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Spiritual preparedness is achieved with evolved consciousness.

Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough.

Don't limit your imagination, the best part of your life, is living your desires.

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]

'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.