God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.