Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.