Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.