Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.