“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.”

“Life is too short and love is too long.”

“I was a wildflower that would continue to grow in the most unexpected weather.”

“I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”

“People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows and take their large offerings to church, to the man of God who already has a mansion and jets , what a shallow mindedness.”

“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.”

“Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.”

“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”