Every human instant is a focusing of attention. Every human lifetime reflects an overall habit of attention.

Two ideas, I think, have often made my conversations unsatisfying.

"We now live in a culture where we’re never bored and everything is boring."

The sunset, the seagull, the crashing waves, the great slow turning of our planet. The inspiration that visits me, a new person coming...

How we digest experience is what makes it good or bad. It's not up to providence. It's up to us.

One of the greatest, or maybe the greatest, discovery of my life has been the extent to which things I've taken as true are not.

Anger is an emotion. Like any other. It is neither right nor wrong. Rather, it is sacred.

Recipe for Harm: What you hate in you, call bad. Project it. Attack.

The volume of our shouting is a measure of the frailty of our ideas.

In a YouTube video, a man asked the Indian teacher Sadhguru something to the effect of, "I want to achieve enlightenment, but I feel I'm...

The world and I are within one another.

When we feel fear, we want it to go away. And to make it go away, we tend to think we have to do something. Not only is there an inherent...

To believe in rationalism’s ability to say something about ultimate reality, we must believe that our experience exposes us to that reality

My perception has long been that it’s not considered good manners to say you’re good at something. It gets labeled bragging.

First of all, it’s obvious what love is. Love is a word.

Many intelligent people feel their conclusions about the ultimate bleakness of existence are supported by a scientific vision of the world.

We naturally keep our arms still until we need them to do something for us. We can practice the same thing with our mind.

Poetry is no more one thing than music is.

What works... is to wait for inspiration, to let [things] unfold like a conversation unfolds, to let myself be surprised by what is said.

There are two things in our experience. What happens and the stories we tell ourselves about what happens.