To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Time is not rigid” It is destructible. It melts away before you know it.

Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

I love the dead... Frequently.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.