We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Every event in one’s life has a lesson to teach. The thoughtful imbibe the lesson and forget the incident. The thoughtless forget the lesson but keep thinking about the event.

Well, I am sure, for we do not achieve this by ourselves, but by the strength of StarClan within us.

-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Average is Your Enemy.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.