The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.