“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

A moment comes when other is no longer other.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.

Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.

I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.