When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

The truth will make you odd.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.