Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

Relax. Nothing is under control.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.