We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.