It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.
We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.
We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of. . . we are afraid of what we think.
When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams.
The secret of happiness is simply this. . . your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.
The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so. '
In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.
The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.