I think optimism is a moral imperative.

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.