Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation. . . when I consider all this. . . I am silent.