"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.

It is no longer a matter of if there is a war

Generosity is the heart of humanity.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.

Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.