No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.