Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due!

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

The level of evolution in this world is not exactly high.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.