That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I never hold a grudge.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I think that I’m perfect.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I am two with nature.

What you are comes to you.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.