What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

True faith always leads to action.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.