The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

Without the rocks, the streams will lose their song

A true master is an eternal student

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.