The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Let the path be open to talent.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Children always turn to the light.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

To be awake is to be alive.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Africa is on the rise.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.