The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

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.

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I believe in having a private life.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.