For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.