Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.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.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.

My mother used to say "He who angers you conquers you."

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.