We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.