It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

When he comes back, I'm sticking to him like moss to a stone. You're going to have to cut me off with a knife to get us separated.

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.