Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!

Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

It's only artists who know how to use their eyes

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.