Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
I fell in love with doing yoga.
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.