What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?