The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

My brothers and sister have all achieved so much in their lives and achieved so much success. But I'm growing and learning, I have a strong head on my shoulders.

I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.