You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

Can't living with the bill means it won't become law.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.