Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

You were placed on this earth to create not to compete.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

Producing is great because you learn.

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.