What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

Diversity is good. We need each other's ideas.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.

With gentleness, you will calm every aggressive action.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.