For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.

Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.