I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'