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

Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

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

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

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.

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.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.