Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.