The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

Live in the moment... where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.

It’s not an ordinary cash wash, Jake, ” Jean smiled. “C’est très spécial... et il a un secret!”“I understood special and secret, ” Jake said. “That’s about it.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Music is my first love.

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.