What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

We are used to being sold out by people we elect.

It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.