Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

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.

Take my hands, ” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.