The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Patience has all the time it needs.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

New Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.