Fate is a given, destiny is what we do with it

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

You make the Choice and thereafter that Choice makes you. You create your Dream and thereafter that Dream creates you.

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.