The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.