...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Love and respect should be reciprocal

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.

Let your requests be made known unto God.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.