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

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

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.

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

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.