When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

She flew across the turbulent gust.Her eyes fixed, her wings strongShe flies and flies and flies along.To reach high, to open her wings to the breathing sun rise.

Life. In all it's mundane majesty.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

It gets better and better being me.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.