The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.