When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.