“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is...”

“Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.”

“Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.”

“Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.”

“There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.”

“Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.”

“Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”

“Heres to the so-so-ing it.Heres to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Heres to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed.Heres to driving home past dark and dozing off the road...”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not on...”

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So its not that you are anti-gun. Youll need the polices guns to take away other peoples...”

“Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. Its not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly...”

“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventua...”

“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping fr...”

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he s...”