Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

The common denominator for success is work.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

The multitude is always wrong.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.