When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.