Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

Envy is a surefire party killer.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

I'd like to see Paris before I die.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.