Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.