The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

The more we take, the less we become.