People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.