What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I was a gymnast for years.

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.