“What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.”

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.

Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.

It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

It is actually important to do songs they’re familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I’ve changed people’s perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.