People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.