The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.