My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.