The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Whatever heaven ordains is best.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.