I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

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.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.

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

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.