The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

I stand secured in the Lord.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.