We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

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

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.