While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for this!

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?

I could stop and live carefully but that's ridiculous. I don't want to live carefully.

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.