we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.