Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

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.

Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

To make headway, improve your head.

In every moment you are someone new and therefore can be and do anything you wish to be and do, totally unlimited, unrestrained, made in the image of the Infinite.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.