Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community

The worst threat to man is man himself

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.