For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

This is it.

Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment, understanding that in patience lies wisdom, knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? a

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.