A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.