Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

If your not in it you're out of it.

These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs... Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.