Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.