When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.
Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
I don’t believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don’t know what to call them, I don’t know how they work. But I know they’re there.
Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
If you’re living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
There’s tons of magic in the world, and it’s all science.
You can’t stay well without telling – and living – the truth.
I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can’t.
True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Play until it’s time to rest, then rest until it’s time to play.
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.