The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

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.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.