Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation.

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!