When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear driving us beyond the natural wish to improve. It's really the refusal to acknowledge that life - including ourselves - is simply not perfect.

There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.