If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Those dreams seem very simple to me now, a crude, crayon-drawn picture by a wistful child. But the beauty of impossible dreams is that they are impossible - the hows and whens don't really matter.

Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.