Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

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.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!