When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.