Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.