To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.