True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you’ve realized, you love, and you are reached.
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.
Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic. "
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.