I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful, " it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

We focus on what we do right, we learn from what we did wrong, we move onto the next day that's what prepares us, that's what makes us strong?

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.