Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.