Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Words rarely answer what the heart suffers, but there is a God who does.

Good literacy skills can help children:-Be healthy and safe.-Do their homework to their best ability.-Get and keep a job one day.-Eventually participate in local committees or government

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.