We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Have the mind of a fox, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swan, and the soul of a dove.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.