If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

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.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

My tattoos remind me of all that I have been through.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.