The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.