We serve what we hold on to. We serve to maintain it, to elevate it, and to defend it. That doesn't imply reciprocation.

No amount of beating up on yourself will ever change that you cannot be what you have not yet become, and you have only become what you are. Give yourself a break.

Trading what we have been for what we will be is the act of aging. That's inevitable, and in the fleeting, momentary awareness of that change, the constant rediscovery of our self, we may say we live.

You can see the world through your mind or walk through your mind and see the world.

We fool ourselves into believing it's dark outside because our minds long ago stopped seeing the stars. Of course it looks hopeless. We've lent the darkness our energy and made it matter having put none into the light.

If there is a single principle that enables our understanding of the universe it's that all that is owes its existence to everything that is not. That understanding alone allows for an entire universe to shape itself within something we call nothing, so that even a bird may rise from the ashes of its own destruction.

We tend to believe that thinking is arriving at some notion rather than going beyond the notion to see what holds it in place. In this way, we remain as children, clinging to an idea of right without having to face its wrong.

Knowledge can only be hidden from minds that wait for it to be given to them rather than seeking it out themselves.

Knowledge has no natural enemies. Jealousy and ignorance do.

The greater part of what we know is what we don't know that we don't.

Some worry about what they're missing, others about what they might miss. No matter how far you walk in this world, you'll meet far more people who dare not than do.

There's a difference between disagreeing and disrespecting called understanding.

... people fear remarkably few things yet see them in nearly everything.

You look at the truth every day and still don't see it, so start by looking at how you are seeing the world. That awareness is beginning.

It's in the nature of each thing to be different from every other thing, so that all that is may become more than it has been.

You've surrendered your joy to authority that was not your own and made the space through which you are allowed to move too small for the energy within you. Pick up that joy, feel its weight, try it on again, and see how much larger is the space in which you stand.

Your path, if it is your own, is a construct of the past. Before you lies wilderness.

The thing about a tree is, if left alone, it will outlive the person who planted it. It provides continuity from one generation to the next and often several more as each adapts to the conditions in which it finds itself. When one decides that the tree's value is only in the wood that can be made from it, they choose to destroy not just the tree but also that continuity and adaptation. The same is true of our children.