If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

Thoughts are powerful beyond measure.

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

If you will it, it is no dream

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.