The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!

If at first you don’t succeed, then maybe you have the wrong idea of success, or you’re using the wrong standard of measuring it.

There are no tips for life neither for travelling

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.

As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.