The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.