The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

I am yours, " he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.