I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.