Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

Every breath you take is a step forward toward death. (Hazrat Ali-As)

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Power-over is amoral. Power-to is responsibility.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.