If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

this time has finished me.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.