We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.