To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

The smartest fish are still in the sea.

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.