When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

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.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by.

Seven times up, eight times down

Good leadership isn't about what you say but what you do.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.