No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.

What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Putin is a tough guy. I met him once.

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.