Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.