What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

Lord gives even more grace, so you can endure the test of time.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.