If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

. . . when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me.

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.