There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

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

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.