Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.

Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

Your life can be anything you want it to be.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.