Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.