Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.

The mindset of this [“Gangnam Style”] dance is dress classy, and dance cheesy,

Other people have analysis. I have Utah.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...