Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

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.

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.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.