All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

Your smile shines like the morning sun.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I’m not here anymore.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

How silent are the winds!

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!