Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.