How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.