Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.