large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

If you can't be happy, Make someone else happy! :)

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

The dream is a distant goal.

I'm finally dating. It's fun.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Cheerleaders are simultaneously everything that is right and wrong with the world.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.