Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Let everything be a confirmation of Awareness.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.