I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.