The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.

Whoever is content, shall be cheerful.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

I do six or seven films a year in order to sustain my lifestyle.

New York is a fantastic city.

Someone that is not close with their family is an immediate deal breaker for me.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.