I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I have seen the future, and it works.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.