Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

The more things I threw away, the more I found.

I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.

Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.