He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

The sinner runs when no one is pursuing himMeaning: one’s guilt will always haunt or live with him

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you