The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

Beauty is a matter of finding the right address.

The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.