Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

It's all possible and I'm living proof.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I'm not trying to become the demon I'm fighting against

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!