There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.