We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

There was, I found, always more to learn.

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

The universe is full of fuel.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

Nobody has ever had crowds like Trump has had.

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.