Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real.

Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

Comfortable in my own skin, I'm madly in love with myself.

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?