Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

I have learned it’s best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don’t have time for monsters.

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.