This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

God dwells within you, as you.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.

Your tears are my prayers.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

What are you willing to give up to live the life you are pretending you want?

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Love like that is a deep well, with very steep sides. Once you fall in, that's it - you will love that person always.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?