They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.