Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.