Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt

No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.