As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.