Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day. What might you do differently from what you do now?

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.