You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Love is very light, very joyful, very simple and innocent.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.