The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'

All beauty contains darkness.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm always challenged by someone.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.