The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

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

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.