When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

. . . when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.