“The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.”

If you don’t develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won’t be any happier when you get more.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn’t date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it’s because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Don’t be proud of what you know, and don’t be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

It ain’t made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

I didn’t do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”

We need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

When we are in our studios, in our private space.