Our society is dedicated almost entirely to the celebration of ego, with all its sad fantasies about success and power, and it celebrates those very forces of greed and ignorance that are destroying the planet.

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

There’s only one thing that’s better than getting what you want: it’s to know that you can be happy whether you get it or not.

Sometimes war isn’t fought on unfamiliar land against foreigners. Sometimes war is civil, fought inside your room, against yourself. I wonder how many war survivors smile at me everyday, just to return to the battlefield at night.

When my therapist asks me what skills I could have used in a crisis:

It is ironic to use a militaristic metaphor, but your greatest “weapon” against the forces of tyranny comes through the harmonic energies of your heart, specifically your open heart. The interference patterns of fear, as manipulated by those in power, are designed to keep you at a low evolutionary threshold. Positive feelings, such things that you call love, appreciation, compassion, bring you very rapidly to a higher evolutionary threshold. The more individuals who choose the higher emotional capabilities of the human nature, the less effective will be the interference of fear on your collective.