The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.