Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

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.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.