If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I really have no interest in myself.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

I’m selfish.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

For me, education was power.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.