Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.