Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

I hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Darkness at Blacklands is scary.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.