The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God