Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

You can be passionate about anything.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.