When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

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There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.