People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.