The things one wants the most, are not things after all.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

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

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Eat food. Eat actual food. I try to not eat anything processed or sugar-free - I eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.