Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

God has no other hands than ours.

You need to keep you mind at peace and be sure what you do is your passion.

Fate always found its mark, one way or another.

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both