We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.