Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love

The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

Everything touches everything.

I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?

There's nothing political about American literature.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.