Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?