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You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Not everyone is equally good-looking.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Do something today that you think is too delicious,
too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Good fortune has side effects.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson.

If you're doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to KNOW what they want

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

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.

Make a plan to change the world. For
one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Remember that it's okay to ask for help when you're stumped, because sometimes you really can't be expected to handle everything alone.

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward ...

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Adults under threat feel like children.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

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.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

If you're miserable, make a choice.
If you're still miserable, you can choose again.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

People don't cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.