What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Every mistake is a new style.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.