Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

The huntsman took pity on her and said, "Run away into the woods, child, and never come back.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out.

I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

When much is taken, something is returned.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.