Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Pain is an illusion, an illusion that really really hurts!

Only those who transcend into another world, knows there.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

If you want God to act SUDDENLY then you’re gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!