You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

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.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.