If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.

Every day brings new choices.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.