To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.

Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.