When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength.

The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?