One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

You ought to dance.

You can’t save dollar by dollar to become wealthy.

Don't let fear outweigh what you feel.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.