“We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.”

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.

Luxury is experiencing reality

That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.

I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Knowin’ all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein’ a good whittler.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.