The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.