The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

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.

Most of my reading is rereading.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

Bad manners make a journalist.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.