Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.