Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

If you want to attain peace, live peacefully

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

I write to find out what I think.