You are beyond the sky

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.