“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.””

To argue with reality is to argue with God.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.

Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support.

I’ve always been a very rebellious, philosophical person.

So my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people.

Their silence is enough praise.

You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?