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

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

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.