Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

To be fearlessly vulnerable with someone…One of the deepest, most desirable paradoxes of love.

The Art of Action explores specific action steps you can take for personal and professional transformation. Start by taking the initiative to be kind, courageous, and polite.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.