The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.