True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

Marketing has always been about the same thing - who your customers are and where they are.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.