Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.

Real is overratedNo way in my life is that the gistI'd be everything I am notIf I were a fictionist

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.