Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

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.

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

The breath of life is divine grace of God.

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then.

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.