The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.

I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.