Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you.'

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.