Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

I played sports in high school and in college.

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.