Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

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.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.