The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

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.

But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less.

By the grace of God, I will finish what I have started.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.