Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

Being dogmatic and close-minded are not virtues.

When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.