Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

Always aim for 100 percent and you'll always know where to improve.