Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

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.

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers.

There is a very thin line between- Gobar(cow dung) and Go-Uber!!!!

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

I understand Spanish better than I speak it.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?