Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born!-RVM

Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another.

To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought, when they aren't genuine.

Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.