If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.