Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

From virtue all happy states arise.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Emotion is created by motion.