Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.