Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

The real us is pure love, pure light

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.