She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

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.

Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.— Rhett

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

She was a woman without a family. A woman without a pack. A woman alone.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.