Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Patience has all the time it needs.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.