Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

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

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.