It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

I'm glad that I'm female.