God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

The mile has all the elements of a drama.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.