“Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.”

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don’t know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.