However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

The intellect must be different from the soul.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.