We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.