Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.