Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying!