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

Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

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.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.