True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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.

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.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.