The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

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.

Well, you can't have heartbreak without love, " Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.

When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place.

Sometimes, I just want to be comforted—I don’t want to be or appear to be stronger than I am.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.