It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.