Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Everything changes, it all stays the same, Everyone guilty, no one to blame, Every way out, brings you back to the start, Everyone dies to break somebody's heart...

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

I have learned to delegate.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

I trust Life. I know it brings me everything that I need at the perfect time and in the perfect way.

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.