If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

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.

Let love, joy, peace, and hope be the guiding lights of your life today, tomorrow, and forever.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known, " but, of course, you couldn't have known.

When things went dark and you search for a light to see things clearly, that light is guidance. Don't wait for it, actually you have to search for it.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

You are perfect, whole and complete. You needn't add anything to yourself to experience your true power.

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

It seems that everything is part of the maturing process

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.