“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.

What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.

There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!

Act without expectation.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history – it is a moment for action.

You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.