Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.