The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Reality gets created through acts of observation

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit.

One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.