To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Our spaceship is a tiny bubble in a glass of God.

I don't care about revenues.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.