All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

The truth is in the present moment.

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or the email to pop up in our in box. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen - if they happen at all - when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.