When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.