I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

Never let anyone tell you that you can't achieve your goals.

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day