There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

once you stop communicating as much as you use to, your friendship would not last. people change and people make new friends.

Do not forget to write your sacred book.

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.