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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.