The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.