“The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.”

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.

The future is born, put the past in a casket.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Now, with the Internet, you’re either five years ahead or you’re five years behind, and the music game is catchin’ up right now.

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.