Whatever good things you've heard about me probably aren't true. Whatever bad things you've heard are probably just the tip of the iceberg, I said.

It might have helped us considerably to have been shown, perhaps through some simple exercises in elementary school, that we are not our thoughts, that we can watch them come and go and learn not to...

Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you...

All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others.

You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.

"Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all."

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

There are moments when a kind of clairvoyance comes over you, and suddenly you see through walls into another dimension that you've forgotten or decided not to perceive so you can continue living with...

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...

Happens to me all the time... People are always underestimating my dumbness.

You cannot find someone who does not want to be found.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.

You are not your mind. You are not your body. You are not even your beliefs—these are only of this world, mere flesh and blood and a few electrochemical reactions. You, my friend, are far greater...

Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others....

Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own "body music."

His horse stumbled in the tussocky ground and made him realize, then, how thoughtlessly fast he was riding... how thoughtlessly fast he was thinking.

I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.