You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

You? Harmless?” Tam snorted. “What? You don’t think I could pull it off?” Aiden accused. “Well, the fact that you’re practically a walking armory had me convinced otherwise.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

What happens when you lose your heart's desire?

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.