A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.