Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

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.

Everybody, including you, potentially can be great.

Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I'm sure there are people who can toggle quickly from all-in caregiving to structured socializing, but I can't think of any offhand.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.