I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

God asked us to get His knowledge and wisdom to build a predictable life rather than expecting miracles.

A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.