A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

It is we that are blind, not fortune.