"Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."”

“Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence”

“Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.”

“I always get very calm with baseball.”

“Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.”

“Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.”

“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.”

“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.”