I need to just find my own peace.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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.
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say