Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

The let-go of the last little bit is the biggest because, in that, there is no return.

It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.

When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.

The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others. Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

You're only as old as your spine.

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

Convert to IRA-based system.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.