What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

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.

You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

I love life, I love people and I love sharing, so I would say that I'm romantic.

Fashion is so over the top.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.