Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

It seems my heart is made of tissue paper

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.