Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.

Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.

I loved WICKED. I wish there were a part I could play in it.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.

It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.