Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.

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.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.