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.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.