As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.