The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

Thing in Everything

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.