The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

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.

God uses language to create and command us.

It is always a pride to die as an American.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

What you do comes from what you think.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

I've always loved jazz.