Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'