You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

No one can give you freedom but you.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.