The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you reach a paradoxical state-hating to love someone

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

I think music is another language.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

I dont want to be owned by anyone.

Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.