You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

There is power in a King's blood.

All that I was and the world that was mine are gone forever.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I try to be as efficient as possible.