The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

Are you who I think you are?

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)