The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.