You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

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.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

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.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

Every day brings new choices.