The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.