I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.