The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.