Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.