The light within us dances when we smile.

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.

Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.

We can't fix, only support each other to process, manage, transform, make life-journeys in own way.

You can never die. With death, you transform and transcend.

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"