Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

Ordinary leaders move mounds, good leaders move hills, but great leaders move mountains.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It's easy to live when you're in love.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

The person who experiences most wins.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.