If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.