Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.

The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114