The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

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.

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.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

You got shot at and you still got me an air conditioner.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.