Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].

Multitasking is a lie.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.