In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

What’s the point of doing what you’re told if you have no choice in the matter?

1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.