Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.