By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.