The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

Freedom is our birthright.

Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.