When you argue with reality, reality always wins

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.

It’s complicated, ” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender.“Talk slowly, ” Jenna retorted derisively.“Okay, I deserved that, ” I admitted.

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station