In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.