When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

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.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

Our life must answer for our faith.