Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.