The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

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.

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.