When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself.

First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side!

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

It is to be recognized that the negative emotions and the guilt that comes with it is not a part of the Consciousness, it only belongs to the mind!

First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.

In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario.

We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.

„We are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a Miracle.

The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.

You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.