When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Love is very light, very joyful, very simple and innocent.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

Youth ends when egotism does

There is but one art to omit.

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

The tongue has the power of life and death.