Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down