We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

I don't necessarily respect other people's religions, or any religion. But the people--I respect them, and I give them the honor they deserve, whatever they believe.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

We do not see through our eyes alone.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.