Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms.

Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see anew.

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Whether you are lost in the darkness or dance in the light is entirely up to you.

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.