Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Don’t fellowship with people around you alone, explore and reach out to more people

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

Music is in the space between the notes.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.