Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

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.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time...Nothing is more important than TIME... can't buy it back ever.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.