Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

Naysayers are frightened of their own power.

The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.

I like to go where the life is.

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.