The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

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.

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.