We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory.
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
You don’t really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don’t really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be relevant.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Some people don’t understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.
I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
It’s so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It’s really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.