Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either.

The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.