Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams

Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Absolute perfection is insidious.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.