We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

The great fish eat the small.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.