If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.