When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.

It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.