Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.