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

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.

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.

The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life.

A joke's a very serious thing.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Honour the difficult.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.