Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done not often.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.