Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words

Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why?

Focus is the soul of success.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.