If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.