Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

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.

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

It would be arrogant of us to think that we exist in a world created specifically for us and that knowing the reality we live in is unnecessary.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.