As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.

Sometimes all thats left is faith.

People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things they know that real power comes from surrender.

If we truly knew someone's entire life story and all the things they have been through we would drop all jealousy and comparison. We would admire their ability to shine.

You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back

Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things.

If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation

You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you're at. It's always up to you.

A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.