In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

The things one wants the most, are not things after all.