We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

We all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.

There are many paths to the truth. We need only the courage to tread our own path, no one else's.

A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance.

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.

Be you. You are sacred.

Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.