If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.