Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.

The only burden you have ever had is your mind.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.