I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.