Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Only the insecure strive for security.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
