One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value

Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.

My heart thrashes in time with my feet pounding across the cold, hard ground. I can’t run any faster, longer, and yet I must. My life and my family’s survival depends on it.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.