I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being al….

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentia….

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself..

I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged i….

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir ca….

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject..

Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need to make between the notion of struggle and the notion….

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different d….

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment..

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the compet….

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey..

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away….

Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again..

The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out int….

Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that rea….

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love..

We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towa….

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful..

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and….

Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation….

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have..