When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open. . . The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.