Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

Love is very light, very joyful, very simple and innocent.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

Strano come certi ridicoli rituali appaiano perfettamente sensati quando si è innamorati.

Look at me, Nat. I won’t bite.” There was a long pause before he said, “Hard.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.