If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

When you pray as much as you work

I don't trust words. I trust actions

The revelations received while dreaming usually will cause a man to begin to meditate

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.