To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.