Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.