“Be real. That’s part of being present.”

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

Most people don’t walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it’s unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It’s why I’m such a fan of self-help books.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness – changing your thoughts and energy around that person – can lower stress.

I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we’re focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.

When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.

True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth.

I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness – that happiness is a choice you make.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that’s where healing can truly begin.

Even if you’re just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

There’s no problem so great it can’t be solved. If it can’t be solved, it’s not a problem, it’s reality.

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.

Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.

If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.