There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.