It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.

Everything in your dream means exactly what you think it means.

Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega.

What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?