If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

We learn invaluable life lessons from people whom exhibit courage and grace under extraordinary circumstances.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.