“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

I don’t like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I’m eighteen, and I’m going to fall in love.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it’s the core of who I am.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.