All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.

We are in this fairyland on sufferance

If you endure every struggle, you will find your potential strength.

It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.