I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

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 you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.