Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your family even closer because one of them is a backstabber.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

A dog's spirit dies hard.

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.