In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I think and that is all that I am.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

All mankind love a lover.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.