What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

There's a very close tie between good health and good education.

If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

I've always been into chokers. They're definitely having a big moment right now, and that's so cool.