I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

We all want to be the hero but some of us are born to be villains and side characters.

The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.

I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.