Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

Who is the self that you are helping?

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.

Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

In the monastery,  you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Realize the self of yourself.

The deeper in you go the more unique you become

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?""Perfect timing.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.