Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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.

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

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.

It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

One likes to believe in the freedom of music...

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.