There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be - not just always do.

First we love within, then we love the world.

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.